Ph 127c – Spring 2008                   Statistical Physics

Instructor:  

            Gil Refael
            117 Sloan Annex, x4705

            refael{at}caltech.edu
            Office Hours : Friday 3:30-4:30.          

Grader:

            Waheb Bishara

            131 Sloan Annex, x2288

            waheb{at}caltech.edu
            Office Hours : Monday 5-6:30pm.

Lecture Notes

Week 1 - Superfluidity, and the Landau critical velocity.         
Week 2 - Josephson relations and vortices.      
Week 3 -  Order and superfluidity in films.
Week 4 - Kosterlitz Thouless transition I - derivation of the RG equations.
Week 6 - Kosterlitz Thouless transition II - RG flow and critical properties.
Week 7 - Imaginary time, part I.
Week 8 - Imaginary time, part II - instantons.
Week 9 - Classical fluctuation dissipation theorem.
Week 10 - Quantum fluctuation dissipation theorem.

Next week: quantum fluctuation dissipation theorem and the Kubo formula.

Homework

Problem Set 1 Solution

Problem Set 2 Solution

Problem Set 3 Solution

Supplements

           You-tube on helium:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Z6UJbwxBZI

          And the fountain effect: 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCJ24176enM