Statistical Physics @ Trieste blackboard
Course: Statistical Mechanics
by Christian Micheletti



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Part (A)
  • Basic notions
    • ensemble microcanonical, canonical and grancanonical
    • Boltzamann, Bose and Fermi statistics
    • quantum statistical mechanics
  • Phase Transition
    • Ising model (Transfer matrix in 1D + field etc.)
    • Weiss approach
    • critical exponents
    • variational principles and mean field
    • infinite range model
    • scaling relations, Widom hypothesis and its consequences
    • finite-size scaling
  • Computational methods and off-equilibrium
    • master equation
    • Langevin approach
    • importance sampling and Monte Carlo
    • Simulated annealing
    • reweighting techniques

Part (B)
  • Soft-condensed matter
    • Statistical mechanics for polymers
    • percolation theory