Prochain Séminaire de la FIP :
Accéder au programme
Retrouvez toutes les informations pour vos stages :
Stages L3
Stages M1 ICFP
Actualités : Séminaire de Recherche ICFP
du 14 au 18 novembre 2022 :
Retrouvez le programme complet
Contact - Secrétariat de l’enseignement :
Tél : 01 44 32 35 60
enseignement@phys.ens.fr
r>
Prochain Séminaire de la FIP :
Accéder au programme
Retrouvez toutes les informations pour vos stages :
Stages L3
Stages M1 ICFP
Actualités : Séminaire de Recherche ICFP
du 14 au 18 novembre 2022 :
Retrouvez le programme complet
Contact - Secrétariat de l’enseignement :
Tél : 01 44 32 35 60
enseignement@phys.ens.fr
r>
Faculty : Werner Krauth
Tutors : Victor Dagard and Valentina Ros
ECTS credits : 6
Language of instruction : English
Keywords : Mathematical foundations (probability theory, statistics), phases, phase transitions, exactly solved models (1d and 2d Ising model, 1d XY model), Kosterlitz-Thouless physics
Exam : one written intermediate (30%) and one written final exam (70%)
Website : http://www.lps.ens.fr/~krauth/index.php/ICFP_Stat_Physics_2019
Scope of the course
This lecture course on statistical mechanics will take students from the foundations of probability theory and statistical inference to the important models and the central concepts and techniques of statistical mechanics. The main focus will be on equilibrium and on classical systems, but we will also treat transport and dissipation, and discuss quantum statistical mechanics for Boson systems and quantum spin models.
Organization, grading
There will be 15 lectures and 14 tutorial sessions, 9 homeworks (with solutions, not graded), and one written intermediate (30%) and one written final exams (70%).
Planning
Lectures (CM) and tutorials (TD) : Each Monday morning, from 10 September 2018 through 07 January 2019 () (Lectures : 8:30 - 9:25 am, 9:35 - 10:30 am ; tutorials : 10:45 - 11:40 am, 11:50 am - 12:45 pm). Attention : No CM/TD on 05 November 2018
Intermediate exam : Monday, 12 November 2018 10:30 - 12:30 in room L357/359, third floor of 24 rue Lhomond.
Final exam : Monday, 14 January 2019 9:00 - 12:00 in room L357/359, third floor of 24 rue Lhomond.
Prerequisites
This course will be self-contained. Some prior exposure to elementary statistical or thermal physics on the undergraduate level may be useful.
Computing requirements
Probability, statistics, and statistical physics are today closely linked to computing. Students should be able to download, run and modify elementary Python programs. Many such programs will be provided, and some will have to be written for the homework sessions.
Syllabus
References
Lecture notes will be available before each course.
Books
Prochain Séminaire de la FIP :
Accéder au programme
Retrouvez toutes les informations pour vos stages :
Stages L3
Stages M1 ICFP
Actualités : Séminaire de Recherche ICFP
du 14 au 18 novembre 2022 :
Retrouvez le programme complet
Contact - Secrétariat de l’enseignement :
Tél : 01 44 32 35 60
enseignement@phys.ens.fr
r>