Transitions de phase

Typical configuration of the Ising model close to the critical point

Le cours sera en français cette année 2018-2019 !

• Teaching team and schedule
  • Guillame Roux: lectures on Fridays 9am-12am
  • Christophe Texier: tutorials on Fridays 1:30pm-4:30pm

• 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 (you will have a booklet)
  • Lectures notes by Nicolas Pavloff (in French)
  • Tutorials (in English)

• Bibliography
  • Pavloff & Sator : physique statistique (main reference, in French)
  • Chaikin & Lubensky : principles of condensed matter
  • Batrouni, le Bellac, Mortessagne : Equilibrium and Non-Equilibrium Statistical Thermodynamics

• Evaluation
  • continuous assessment: 4 little exercices (finishing last questions) during the tutorials
  • final exam : 3 hours, written exam
  • final grade = (2*FE + CA)/3

• 2018-2019 Schedule (C=cours, T=TD, CC=contrôle continu)
  • 30/11 : C + T
  • 07/12 : C + T
  • 14/12 : C + T
  • 21/12 : C + T (CC)
  • Xmas break
  • 25/01 : C + T
  • 01/02 : C + T (CC)
  • 08/02 : C + T
  • 15/02 : C + T (CC)
  • 22/02 : C + T
  • 01/03 : T + T (CC)
  • Winter break
  • 16/03 : Exams

• 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
  • 2018 : Scaling in magnetic systems - Phi4 soliton and Bogomolny bounds exam - correction