1. komponenta

Lecture type	Total
Lectures	15
Exercises	7

* Load is given in academic hour (1 academic hour = 45 minutes)

Short review of the role of fluctuations in equilibrium many body systems; space- and time correlations; fluctuation dissipation theorem. Phase transitions - phenomenology, examples, common properties, classification. Mean-field theories. Simple models, exact solutions, approximate methods. Scaling concept and universality of critical behaviour. Renormalization group, Wilson's expansion, real space RG. Quantum phase transitions, examples of quantum-classical correspondence. Percolation and fractals. Disorder, frustration and complex forms of ordering. Self-organized complex systems. Phase transitions in systems far from equilibrium

1. Landau & Lifshitz: Statistical Physics (3rd edition), Elsevier, 2013
2. H. E. Stanley: Introduction to phase transitions and critical phenomena, Oxford Univ. Press, 1971
3. N. Goldenfeld: Lectures on phase transitions and the renormalization group, Westview press, 1992
4. P. Pfeuty, G. Toulouse: Introduction to renormalisation group nad to critical phenomena, John Wiley and Sons, 1977
5. J.P. Cardy: Scaling and renormalization in statistical physics, Cambridge Univ. Press, 1996
6. Shang-Keng Ma: Modern theory of critical phenomena, Westview press, 1976

Fizika kondenzirane tvari - izborni predmeti - Regular study - Condensed matter physics