Transitions de phase: Difference between revisions

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Typical configuration of the Ising model close to the critical point

Teaching team and schedule:
- Guillame Roux, course on Fridays 9am-11:30am
- Thomas Noblet, tutorials on Fridays 1:30pm-4pm
- starts December 1st, last day on March 9th, exam on March 16th

Syllabus:
- Mean-field description of the ferromagnetic Ising model
- Landau's phenomenology and classification
- Inhomogeneous systems: Ginzburg-Landau
- Fluctuations
- Scale invariance and universality
- Dynamics of phase transitions

Lectures notes and tutorials:
- Lectures notes by Nicolas Pavloff (in French)
- Tutorials (first part, in English)

Evaluation
- 4 little exercices (finishing last questions) during the tutorials, each two weeks
- final exam : 3 hours, written exam

Annals (most are actually in the tutorials), in French :
- 2013 : liquid crystals (done in tutorials)
- 2014 : critical temperature of finite-size system, polymers (done in tutorials)
- 2015 : exam - correction for front propagation (van der waals done in tutorials)
- 2016 : Bose-Einstein condensates exam - correction
- 2017 : Coupled order parameters - Cahn-Hilliard equation exam - correction

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 * '''Teaching team and schedule''':
 ** Guillame Roux, course on Fridays 9am-11:30am
-** Thomas Noblet, (tutorials on Fridays 1:30pm-4pm
+** Thomas Noblet, tutorials on Fridays 1:30pm-4pm
 ** starts December 1st, last day on March 9th, exam on March 16th
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 ** Dynamics of phase transitions
-* Lectures notes and tutorials :
+* '''Lectures notes and tutorials''':
 ** [http://lptms.u-psud.fr/nicolas_pavloff/enseignement/phenomenes-collectifs-complexes/ Lectures notes by Nicolas Pavloff] (in French)
 ** [http://lptms.u-psud.fr/membres/groux/enseignements/M1/TDsPCC_2016.pdf Tutorials] (first part, in English)
-* '''bibliography''' :
+* '''Bibliography''':
 ** [https://www.mollat.com/livres/1590345/nicolas-sator-physique-statistique-cours-et-exercices-corriges-licence-3-et-master-sciences-de-la-matiere-ecoles-d-ingenieurs Pavloff & Sator : physique statistique] (main reference, in French)
 ** [https://books.google.co.in/books?id=P9YjNjzr9OIC&lpg=PP1&hl=fr&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false Chaikin & Lubensky : principles of condensed matter]
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 ** final exam : 3 hours, written exam
-* '''Annales''' (most are actually in the tutorials), in French :
+* '''Annals''' (most are actually in the tutorials), in French :
 ** 2013 : liquid crystals (done in tutorials)
 ** 2014 : critical temperature of finite-size system, polymers (done in tutorials)