Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics
Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics. Instructor: Professor V. Balakrishnan, Department of Physics, IIT Madras. Thermal fluctuations, Langevin dynamics, Brownian motion and diffusion, Fokker-Planck equations, linear response theory, fluctuation-dissipation relations, the Boltzmann equation, critical phenomena, scaling and critical exponents. (from nptel.ac.in)
| Lecture 31 - Critical Phenomena (Part 3) |
Fluid-magnet analogy (contd.): phase diagrams. Ising model with nearest-neighbour interaction. Mean field theory (MFT) for the Ising model Critical temperature in MFT. Critical exponents in MFT.
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