Course unit, curriculum year 2023–2024
FYS.424
Statistical Physics 2, 5 cr
Tampere University
- Description
- Completion options
Teaching periods
Active in period 3 (1.1.2024–3.3.2024)
Active in period 4 (4.3.2024–31.5.2024)
Course code
FYS.424Language of instruction
EnglishAcademic years
2021–2022, 2022–2023, 2023–2024Level of study
Advanced studiesGrading scale
General scale, 0-5Persons responsible
Responsible teacher:
Lasse LaursonResponsible organisation
Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences 100 %
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
Learning outcomes
Recommended prerequisites
Further information
Learning material
Studies that include this course
Completion option 1
Participation in teaching
17.01.2024 – 30.04.2024
Active in period 3 (1.1.2024–3.3.2024)
Active in period 4 (4.3.2024–31.5.2024)