Critical Phenomena and Renormalization Group for Millennials

ver. 20190111

■ Lecture 1: "Symmetry, Topology and Phase Transitions" (Instructor: MooYoung Choi 최무영, SNU)

   1. Prologue: Statistical Mechanics   

   2. Symmetry and Order

   3. Topological Perspectives

   4. Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-ThoulessTransition

   5. Dynamic Properties

   6. Quantum Properties

   7. Epilogue

   *Lecture note: Note_Choi_ver1.pdf

■ Lecture 2: "Foundations of Critical Phenomena" (Instructor: Gun San Jeon 전건상, Ewha)

   1. Phase Transitions and Critical Phenomena

   2. Landau Theory

   3. Scaling Hypothesis and Block Spin Transformation

   4. Renormalization Group Transformation: Basic

   *Lecture note: Note_Jeon_corrected.pdf  
   *Project: Jeon_project1_corrected.pdf  Jeon_project2.pdf Jeon_solutions.pdf

■ Lecture 3: Renormalization Group in Practice (Instructor: Su-Chan Park 박수찬, Catholic University)

   1. Route to a Continuous Field

   2. Diagrammatic Perturbation Theory

   3. Renormalization

   4. Renormalization Group

   5. Computation of Critical Exponents

   *Lecture note: Note_Park_ver1.pdf Supplementry_Park.pdf