Advanced course on statistical Mechanics I (Winter-Spring 2025)
This course is devoted to advanced topics in statistical mechanics.
Link for class (Link)
Link for my previous lectures on Statistical Mechanics 2 (Khajeh Nasir Digital Library, SBU VPN needed)
Some topics to teach are as follows:
- Thermodynamic Limit
- Thermodynamical equilibrium
- Observable quantities
- Statistical ensembles
- Classical statistical mechanics
- Maxwell Boltzmann distribution
- Quantum Statistics
- BE & FD distributions
- An introduction to effective theory and critical phenomena
- Thermodynamics of early Universe
- Course subjects and program (Download)
- Preliminary Topics (Download)
- Stochastic fields: Definition and classification (Download)
- Statistics of smoothed cosmic fields in perturbation theory I: Formulation and useful formulas in second-order perturbation theory (Download)
- Lecture notes on critical Phenomena provided by Prof. Vahid Karimipour
- Mean field Theory (see link)
- Effective Theory (see link)
- Lecture Notes on Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics (A Work in Progress), (See also this link) by Prof. Daniel Arovas.
- Interactive simulations (Link)
- paper on Fluctuations
Other related courses - Researches methods course (Link)
- Critical Phenomena and Phase transitions (Link)
- Computational Physics (Link) and (Link)
- Data Analysis workshop (Link)
- Data Sciences (Link)
- Stochastic field Workshop (Link)
- Topological Based Data Analysis Workshop (Link)
- Challenges in training and researches in Physics (Link)
- Special topics (Link)
Main References:1- R.K. Pathria, "Statistical Mechanics"
2- M. Kardar, "Statistical Physics of Particles"
3- Greiner et. al., “Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics”
Other relevant References:
4- Reif, F., Fundamental of statistical and thermal physics, Waveland Press, 2009.
5- Reif, F., Statistical Physics (Berkeley Physics course-Volume 5), Macgraw-Hill Book company, 1967.
6- Kerson Huang, “Statistical Mechanics”, Johm Wiley and Sons.
7- Dalvit, Diego AR, Jaime Frastai and Ian Lawrie, "Problems on statistical mechanics", CRC Press, 1999.
8- arXiv:1107.0568, “Lecture Notes in Statistical Mechanics and Mesoscopics”
9- STEPHEN J. BLUNDELL AND KATHERINE M. BLUNDELL ,”Concepts in Thermal Physics”.
My previous lectures (Link) & (Click here)
Preliminary Topics (Download) الدرس الاول
14040131 (Download) الدرس الثانی
14040202 (Download) الدرس الثالث
14040207 (Download) الدرس الرابع
14040209 (Download) الدرس الخامس
14040214 (Download) الدرس السادس
14040216 (Download) الدرس السابع
14040221 (Download) الدرس الثامن
14040223 (Download) الدرس التاسع
14040228 (Download) الدرس العاشر
14040230 (Download) الدرس الحادی عشر
Exams timeline
First midterm would be on 1404/02/17 (08/05/2025) at 10:00 am including Thermodynamics
الاختبار النصفي الأول سيكون في 14/02/17 (08/05/2025) الساعة 10:00 صباحًا بما في ذلك الديناميكا الحرارية
Seciond midterm would be on 1404/03/20 (19/06/2025) at 9:00 pm including chapters 5 and 6
Final exam includes chapters 7 and 8
Exercises:
Set 1 (Download) تم تمديد تاريخ الاستحقاق إلى 06/05/2025
Set 2 (Download) تاريخ الاستحقاق إلى 07/05/2025
Set 3 (Download) تاريخ الاستحقاق إلى 21/05/2025