Syllabus

Phase, phase diagrams, phase transitions, Phase equilibrium, Thermodynamics and
Statistical mechanics of phase transitions. Phase transitions in the Early Universe. Water-ice
(liquid-solid), Dielectric, Magnetic and Superconductive transitions etc. Phase
transformations in metals, alloys, fluids, Biopolymers (gelations). Liquid crystals and
Superfluidity (He3
-He4
).Phase Transitions under Extreme Conditions and in large natural and
technical systems. Formalism of first and second order phase transitions. Landau theory,
Mean-Field theory. Recent scenario. Kinetic arrest and Glass transition. Transitions in Thin
films, Microstructures and Nanostructures. Critical phenomena a survey of some basic
results

Basic understanding of the phases and related transitions surrounds you

Idea of various thermodynamic as well as kinetic phase transitions and critical
phenomena

Theoretical approach of the phase transitions through Landau theory and their
classifications

Basic understanding of the phases and related transitions surrounds you, Idea of various thermodynamic as well as kinetic phase transitions and critical
phenomena, Theoretical approach of the phase transitions through Landau theory and their classifications

P. M. Chaikin and T. C. Lubensky, Principles of condensed matter physics, Cambridge Univ. Press. New York,2000.

P. Papon, J. Leblond and P. H. E. Meijer, The physics of Phase Transitions” Concepts and Applications, 2nd Edition, Springer, 2006

H. Eugene Stanley, Introduction to phase transitions and critical Phenomena”,, Clarendon Press, Oxford.

Ricard V. Sole, Phase transitions, Princeton University Press, 2011