Phys813:About

This is wiki for PHYS 813: Quantum Statistical Mechanics offered as graduate level course at the University of Delaware. Official description from he course catalog:

"Basic concepts of quantum statistical mechanics, density matrix, and quantum partition function. Ideal Bose and Fermi gases; Bose-Einstein condensation. Mean field and Landau theories of phase transitions; critical phenomena; introduction to renormalization group methods. Linear response theory and Boltzman equation. Interacting quantum many-particle systems. PREREQ: PHYS616."