Lecturer

• Prof. Dr. Ferdinand Evers

First meetings

• The first lecture will be taught on 17.04.2024
• The first plenary exercise on 17.04.2024
• The exercises start in the 1st week, from 15.04.2024 on, the respective 0th exercise sheet will be uploaded soon

Lectures (4 SWS)

• Joint lectures for “Bachelor” and “Lehramt” students together
• Wednesdays: 8:30 – 10:00
  Room: H34
• Thursdays: 8:30 – 10:00
  Room: H33

Plenary Exercises

• Dr. Richard Korytár, richard.korytar (at) ur.de
• Wednesdays: 10:15 – 11:45
  Room: PHY 9.2.01

Exercise Groups

• There will be different exercises for LA and for Bachelor. The bachelors students can choose between the following exercise groups

1. Tuesdays, 8:15 - 9:45

   Room: PHY 7.1.21

   Georg Maier

2. Mondays, 14:15 - 15:45

   Room: PHY 9.1.08

   Dr. Animesh Panda

• There will be only one exercise group for LA. If you are a teacher, but the time does not fit your schedule, please contact Adrian Seith (Adrian.Seith (at) ur.de)

1. Tuesdays, 12:00-13:30

   Room: 5.1.34B

   Adrian Seith

• We provide one exercise sheet per week. They will be distributed via GRIPS in the week before they should be solved at the problem class.

Exam

• 24.07.2024

Syllabus

1. Introduction
2. Basic concepts of statistics
3. Physical input into statistical theory
4. Microcanonical ensemble
5. Canonical ensemble
6. Grand Canonical ensembles
7. Thermodynamic averages
8. Entropy and probability
9. Thermodynamic state variables
10. Thermal fluctuations
11. The first and second law of thermodynamics
12. Thermodynamic relations
13. Inhomogeneous systems
14. Interlude: Systems of identical particles
15. Quantum gases: fermions
16. Quantum gases: bosons
17. Spin systems and magnetic phase transitions
18. Virial expansion for diluted systems
19. Liquid-vapor phase transition in van-der-Waals gases
20. Phase transitions and critical phenomena
21. Non-equilibrium dynamics: Boltzmann equation

Literature

• Statistische Theorie der Wärme: Gleichgewichtsphänomene, W. Brenig, Springer (1992).
• Statistische Mechanik, F. Schwabl, Springer (2006).
• Statistische Physik: Lehrbuch zur Theoretischen Physik IV, T. Fliessbach (2018).
• Grundkurs Theoretische Physik 6: Statistische Physik, W. Nolting (2013).

Background reading

• Fundamentals of statistical and thermal physics, F. Reif, Mc-Graw Hill (1965).
• Statistical Physics,
  L. D. Landau and E. M. Lifshitz, Pergamon Press (1976).