Ideas

Harvard Account Sign In

Sign in with your HarvardKey to access my.Harvard Student, Teaching/Advising, Delegate, Harvard Chan, Admissions, and Admin.

Brown, MGH, & Tufts Students

Register for access to participate in Harvard cross-registration.

  1. Course Search
  2. PHYSICS 263

Nonequilibrium Statistical Physics
PHYSICS 263

Course Information

Description

This course will examine how macroscopic, time-dependent behavior emerges from microscopic dynamics under nonequilibrium conditions. The course will start by introducing stochastic dynamics and using it to derive linear response theory. Approaches for deriving hydrodynamic equations, including kinetic theory and generating functional formalisms, will also be covered, along with field-theoretic analyses of dynamical phenomena.

School Faculty of Arts & Sciences
Credits 4
Cross Reg

Available for Harvard Cross Registration

Department Physics
Course Component Lecture
Subject Physics
Grading Basis FAS Letter Graded
General Education N/A
Quantitative Reasoning with Data N/A
Divisional Distribution Science & Engineering & Applied Science
Course Level Primarily for Graduate Students