Statistical Physics 2, 5 op

Core content

• Random walks and diffusion
• Temperature, equilibrium and entropy
• Free energies, ensembles
• Order parameters, broken symmetry, topology
• Abrupt and continuous phase transitions

Complementary knowledge

• Universality and scale invariance
• Classical and quantum statistics
• Topological defects, domain walls
• Nucleation, critical phenomena, scaling

Specialist knowledge

• Information entropy
• Renormalization group