Lecture 1: Faliure of classical statistical mechanics: Black-body radiation
Lecture 2: Mixed states in quantum mechanics and density operator
Lecture 3: Many-particle wave functions and Hilbert space
Lecture 4: Ensembles and partition function for systems in equilibrium
- Example: Partition function for two bosons and two fermions.
Lecture 5: Noninteracting bosons in equilibrium
Lecture 6: Bose-Einstein condensation
Lecture 7: Noninteracting fermions in equilibrium
Lecture 8: Magnetic systems
Lecture 9: Phase transitions in the Ising model of magnetism
Lecture 10: Mean-field theory of phase transitions
Lecture 11: Renormalization group
Lecture 12: Boltzmann (semiclassical) theory of linear response
Lecture 13: Kubo (quantum) theory of linear response
