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B021011 - CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS AND CRITICAL PHENOMENA
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Course Content
Suggested readings
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Prerequisites
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Type of Assessment
Academic Year 2018-19
Course year
First year - Second Semester
Belonging Department
Physics and Astronomy
Course Type
Single education field course
Scientific Area
FIS/03 - PHYSICS OF MATTER
Credits
6
Teaching Hours
48
Teaching Term
25/02/2019 ⇒ 14/06/2019
Attendance required
No
Type of Evaluation
Final Grade
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Lectureship
Teaching Language
Italian and/or English upon request by the students.
Course Content
Symmetry, order and phase transitions. Correlations in classical systems; order parameter and models. Mean-field theory. First and second order phase transitions. GL theory of the superconductivity. Critical exponents, universality and scaling laws. Renormalization group and critical phenomena. Ferromagnets and antiferromagnets; spin-wave excitations.
Suggested readings (Search our library's catalogue)
P.M. Chaikin, T.C. Lubensky,
"Principles of condensed matter physics"
J.M. Yeomans,
"Statistical Mechanics of Phase Transitions"
"Principles of condensed matter physics"
J.M. Yeomans,
"Statistical Mechanics of Phase Transitions"
Learning Objectives
The course aims at indroducing the essential concepts and physical quantities employed to describe and investigate structural properties of liquids and solids, as well as their elementary excitations. Critical phenomena will be also addressed, together with magnetic properties of systems of different dimensionalities. The richness of the phenomenology and the extent of applications in different fields of Physics, makes the course suitanle both for students aiming at specializing in theory and in experimental physics of matter.
Prerequisites
Base courses on General Physics, Quantum Mechanics, Physics of Matter, Thermodynamics, Statistical Mechanics.
Teaching Methods
Lectures on the blackboard.
Type of Assessment
Oral examination