Statistical Mechanics II: Statistical Physics of Fields
Video Lectures
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Collective Behavior, from Particles to Fields Part 1 In this lecture, Prof. Kardar introduces the principles of collective behavior from particles to fields, including Phonons and Elasticity. |
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Lec 1 (continued); The Landau-Ginzburg Approach Part 1 In this lecture, Prof. Kardar continues his discussion of the principles of collective behavior from particles to fields, and introduces the Landau-Ginzburg Approach. |
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The Landau-Ginzburg Approach Part 2 In this lecture, Prof. Kardar continues his discussion of The Landau-Ginzburg Approach, including Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking and Goldstone Modes. |
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The Landau-Ginzburg Approach Part 3 In this lecture, Prof. Kardar continues his discussion of The Landau-Ginzburg Approach, including Scattering and Fluctuations, Correlation Functions and Susceptibilities, Comparison to Experiments. |
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The Landau-Ginzburg Approach Part 4 In this lecture, Prof. Kardar continues his discussion of The Landau-Ginzburg Approach, including Gaussian Integrals, Fluctuation Corrections to the Saddle Point, The Ginzburg Criterion. |
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The Scaling Hypothesis Part 1 In this lecture, Prof. Kardar introduces the Scaling Hypothesis, including the Homogeneity Assumption, Divergence of the Correlation Length, Critical Correlation Functions and Self-similarity. |
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The Scaling Hypothesis Part 2 In this lecture, Prof. Kardar continues his discussion of The Scaling Hypothesis, including the Renormalization Group (Conceptual), and the Renormalization Group (Formal). |
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The Scaling Hypothesis Part 3 In this lecture, Prof. Kardar continues his discussion of The Scaling Hypothesis, including the Gaussian Model (Direct Solution), The Gaussian Model (Renormalization Group). |
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Perturbative Renormalization Group Part 1 In this lecture, Prof. Kardar introduces the Perturbative Renormalization Group, including the Expectation Values in the Gaussian Model, Expectation Values in Perturbation Theory, Diagrammatic Representation of Perturbation Theory, and Susceptibility. |
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Perturbative Renormalization Group Part 2 In this lecture, Prof. Kardar continues his discussion on the Perturbative Renormalization Group, including Perturbative RG (First Order). |
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Perturbative Renormalization Group Part 3 In this lecture, Prof. Kardar continues his discussion on the Perturbative Renormalization Group, including Perturbative RG (Second Order), and the ε-expansion. |
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Perturbative Renormalization Group Part 4 In this lecture, Prof. Kardar continues his discussion on the Perturbative Renormalization Group, including the Irrelevance of Other Interactions and comments on the ε-expansion. |
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Position Space Renormalization Group, Part 1 In this lecture, Prof. Kardar introduces the Perturbative Renormalization Group, including Lattice Models, and Exact Treatment in d=1. |
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Position Space Renormalization Group, Part 2 In this lecture, Prof. Kardar introduces the Perturbative Renormalization Group, including the Niemeijer-van Leeuwen Cumulant Approximation and the Migdal-Kadanoff Bond Moving Approximation. |
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Series Expansions Part 1 In this lecture, Prof. Kardar introduces Series Expansions, including Low-temperature Expansions, High-temperature Expansions, and Exact Solution of the One Dimensional Ising Model. |
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Series Expansions Part 2 In this lecture, Prof. Kardar continues his discussion on Series Expansions, including Self-duality in the Two Dimensional Ising Model and Dual of the Three Dimensional Ising Model. |
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Series Expansions Part 3 In this lecture, Prof. Kardar continues his discussion on Series Expansions, including Summing over Phantom Loops. |
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Series Expansions Part 4 In this lecture, Prof. Kardar continues his discussion on Series Expansions, including Exact Free Energy of the Square Lattice Ising Model. |
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Series Expansions Part 5 In this lecture, Prof. Kardar continues his discussion on Series Expansions, including Critical Behavior of the Two Dimensional Ising Model. |
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Continuous Spins at Low Temperatures Part 1 In this lecture, Prof. Kardar introduces Continuous Spins at Low Temperatures, including the Non-linear σ-model. |
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Continuous Spins at Low Temperatures Part 2 In this lecture, Prof. Kardar continues his discussion on Continuous Spins at Low Temperatures, including Topological Defects in the XY Model. |
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Continuous Spins at Low Temperatures Part 3 In this lecture, Prof. Kardar continues his discussion on Continuous Spins at Low Temperatures, including Renormalization Group for the Coulomb Gas. |
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Continuous Spins at Low Temperatures Part 4 In this lecture, Prof. Kardar continues his discussion on Continuous Spins at Low Temperatures, including Two Dimensional Solids and Two Dimensional Melting. |
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Dissipative Dynamics In this lecture, Prof. Kardar introduces Dissipative Dynamics, including Brownian Motion of a Particle. |
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Continuous Spins at Low Temperatures Part 5 In this lecture, Prof. Kardar continues his discussion on Continuous Spins at Low Temperatures, including Equilibrium Dynamics of a Field and Dynamics of a Conserved Field. |
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Continuous Spins at Low Temperatures Part 6 In this lecture, Prof. Kardar continues his discussion on Continuous Spins at Low Temperatures, including Generic Scale Invariance in Equilibrium Systems, Non-equilibrium Dynamics of Open Systems, and Dynamics of a Growing Surface. |