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PHY 418: Statistical Mechanics I
Prof. S. Teitel stte@pas.rochester.edu ---- Spring 2018

April

Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
1	2 lecture 20 Partition functions for non-interacting quantum and classical ideal gas in the occupation number representation, average occupation number, the classical vs quantum limits of the ideal gas	3	4 lecture 21 The quantized harmonic oscillator as bosons, the Debye model for the specific heat of a solid HW#5 due	5	6	7
8	9 lecture 22 Black body radiation, the quantum ideal gas, standard functions, pressure, particle density, energy	10	11 lecture 23 Leading quantum correction to the ideal gas equation of state, the degenerate Fermi gas, Fermi energy, ground state energy, specific heat	12	13	14
15	16 lecture 24 Chemical potential of a degenerate Fermi gas at finite temperature, Pauli paramagnetism Supplement: The Sommerfeld expansion HW#6 due	17	18 lecture 25 The ideal Bose gas, Bose-Einstein condensation in an ideal gas of free bosons	19	20	21
22	23 lecture 26 Classical spin models, constant magnetization vs constant magnetic field ensembles, broken symmetry and the possibility for a phase transition in the thermodynamic limit, Ising phase diagram	24 HW#7 due by noon in hw locker	25 lecture 27 Mean-field solution of the Ising model, critical exponents	26	27	28
29	30 lecture 28 Mean-field solution and critical exponents continued, Maxwell construction, exact solution of the one dimensional Ising model