Lecturer: Professor Siddhartha Sen
Date: 1995-1996
Groups: Compulsory SS Theoretical Physics, Optional JS and SS Mathematics, JS and SS Two-subject Moderatorship, JS Theoretical Physics
Prerequisites: 241
Duration: 21 weeks
Lectures per week: 3
Assessment: Regular assignments.
Examinations: One 3-hour examination
Brief review of thermodynamics. Canonical/Grand Canonical ensembles. Applications to Perfect Gas and one dimensional Ising Model. Non Ideal Gas, the cluster expansion and virial coefficients. Quantum statistical mechanics. Fermi Dirac and Bose Einstein statistics for non-interacting particles. Applications: Fermi Dirac Gas, Bose Einstein Condensations. Chemical Reactions. Applications to Astrophysics. Interacting particles and introduction to Quantum Field Theory. Temperature Greens Functions. Quasiparticles. Applications of these ideas to Superfluidity, Phase Transitions, Landau Theory. Ideas of Symmetry Breaking. Linear Response Theory.