Physics 464: Phase Transitions and the Renormalization Group

Term essays 1998

• Traffic jams (B. Militze)
• Self-organised criticality (Jochen Kienert)
• Critical phenomena and phase separation in He3-He4 mixtures (Erik Draeger)
• RG analysis of iterated map dynamics (Abdelhamid Galal)
• Metal insulator transition (Denis Dalidovich)
• Bose-Einstein condensation in Confined Atomic Gases (Sahel Ashhab)
• Spin Glasses (Prasanth Sankar)
• The wetting transition (Dmitri Pouchkin)
• Dynamics of pattern formation during solidification (Yung-Tae Kim)
• Random field Ising model (Markus Dittrich)
• Phase transitions in biopolymers (Kai Xiu)
• Heisenberg Antiferromagnets (Scott Baily)
• Superconductor-insulator transition (Sergey Knysh)
• Log-periodic scaling in dynamical systems (Chang Lin)