統計力学特論

Nature realizes a rich variety of phases of matter and phase transitions. Remarkably, certain phase transitions exhibit critical phenomena that are insensitive to microscopic details and depend solely on universal characteristics such as symmetry. In this course, we develop the fundamental theoretical framework for describing phase transitions and critical phenomena, with particular emphasis on the renormalization group and the concept of universality, which underlie the modern theoretical physics. From a technical perspective, we learn basic methods of statistical field theory.