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    This document provides an overview of the PHY 619: Phase Transitions and Critical Phenomena course. The 3-sentence summary is: The course aims to provide students with an understanding of phase transitions and critical phenomena through theoretical and applied study of models and analytical methods. Students will gain skills in statistical mechanics and be able to analyze phase transitions in various physical systems. Assessment includes an exam, presentation, and assignments focusing on phase equilibrium, critical exponents, scaling theory, and renormalization group methods.

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    This document provides an overview of the PHY 619: Phase Transitions and Critical Phenomena course. The 3-sentence summary is: The course aims to provide students with an understanding of phase transitions and critical phenomena through theoretical and applied study of models and analytical methods. Students will gain skills in statistical mechanics and be able to analyze phase transitions in various physical systems. Assessment includes an exam, presentation, and assignments focusing on phase equilibrium, critical exponents, scaling theory, and renormalization group methods.

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    PHY 619: Phase Transitions and Critical Phenomena [Credit 3 (LTP: 3-0-0)]

    Course Outcomes:

    The student is expected to gain a good understanding of various types of phase transitions
    and their description. Obtain a considerable insight of the modern theory of critical
    phenomena and of the behavior of canonical theories and models, and the skills required to
    solve problems useful for future professional activity

    Program Outcomes: PO1, PO3-PO6

    Level: Mastery
    Course Description: Thermodynamic systems exist in various stable homogeneous states
    (phases) which differ in their structure, symmetry, order or dynamics. At certain (critical)
    values of the thermodynamic variables the system undergoes an abrupt change from one
    phase to another phase which is called a phase transition. Critical phenomena investigates the
    relevant observable physical properties exhibiting singularity or discontinuity in the vicinity
    of a critical point. It is often the existence of phase transitions that give materials the
    properties that are exploited in technological applications and therefore, forms an important
    subject of interest to physicists, chemists, and material scientists.

    This is an advanced course on Statistical Physics, with a particular emphasis on Phase


    Transitions and Critical Phenomena, exploring a wide range of phase transitions like
    magnetic transitions, liquid-gas transition, ferroelectric, atomic ordering transitions and other
    displacive phase transitions.

    Course Objectives:
    (1) to provide insights into the Physics of phase transitions and critical phenomena
    through a systematic presentation of the formalism and the models

    (2) to train students in the analytical and numerical methods of modern statistical
    mechanics to solve the exercises proposed during the course.
    (3) to enable the student to recognize the nature and type of the phase transitions that
    occur in nature and to study the main implications of critical phenomena in various
    branches of Physics independently.
    Syllabus:

    Phase equilibrium and phase transition. Examples. Critical point exponents, inequalities and
    universality classes. Overview of simple models. Mean field Approximation, Landau theory,
    Beyond mean field, correlations and fluctuations, Scaling hypothesis, Renormalization
    Group and Crossover Phenomena, Dynamics of phase transitions (nucleation, spinodal
    decomposition, critical slowing down, mode-coupling)
    Prerequisites of the Course: Statistical Mechanics

    Text Books and Reference Books:

    1. H E Stanley, Introduction to Phase transitions and Critical Phenomena, Oxford


    Science Publications (1987).
    2. S. K. Ma, Modern Theory of Critical Phenomena, Westview Press, Oxford (2000).
    3. N. Goldenfeld, Lectures on Phase Transitions and the Renormalization Group,
    Addison & Wesley (1992)
    4. J. M. Yeomans, Statistical Mechanics of Phase Transitions, Oxford University Press,
    New York, NY (1992).
    5. J. J. Binney, N. J. Dowrick, A. J. Fisher and M. E. J. Newman, The Theory of Critical
    Phenomena: An Introduction to the Renormalization Group, Oxford University Press,
    Oxford (1992).
    6. J. Zinn-Justin, Quantum Field Theory and Critical Phenomena, Oxford University
    Press (2002)
    7. I. Herbut, A Modern Approach to Critical Phenomena, Cambridge, University Press
    (2006)
    8. H. Nishimori, G. Ortiz, Elements of Phase Transitions and Critical Phenomena,
    Oxford University Press (2011).
    Course Assessment:
    End of Semester examination: 60 %
    Presentation: 20 % (on a subject chosen by the student and validated by the
    teacher) Assignments: 20 %

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