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 34 - Critical Phenomena (Part 6) |
Scaling functions. Relations between critical exponents. Landau free energy functional. Equilibrium configuration of the order parameter. Relaxation to equilibrium configuration.
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