Transitions de phase
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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
- 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