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Approximation Landau: Ising Model

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PHYS-316: Statistical physics II

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This lecture covers the generalization of the Landau approximation to the Ising model, focusing on the gradient of the order parameter and its application to N spin systems. The slides discuss the local interaction, continuous space formulas, and the concept of Landau approximation in the context of statistical physics and quantum mechanics.

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Matthieu Wyart

Teaching & PhD Past EPFL PhD Students Riccardo Ravasio, Mario Geiger, Wencheng Ji, Leonardo Petrini, Umberto Maria Tomasini, Alessandro Favero Courses Systèmes complexes PHYS-343 This courses show how known (entropy, phase transitions) and new (glasses, percolation, avalanche-type response) physical concepts can be used in various fields (including Computer science, neuroscience, social sciences).

Lenka Zdeborová

Lenka Zdeborová is a Professor of Physics and of Computer Science in École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne where she leads the Statistical Physics of Computation Laboratory. She received a PhD in physics from University Paris-Sud and from Charles University in Prague in 2008. She spent two years in the Los Alamos National Laboratory as the Director's Postdoctoral Fellow. Between 2010 and 2020 she was a researcher at CNRS working in the Institute of Theoretical Physics in CEA Saclay, France. In 2014, she was awarded the CNRS bronze medal, in 2016 Philippe Meyer prize in theoretical physics and an ERC Starting Grant, in 2018 the Irène Joliot-Curie prize, in 2021 the Gibbs lectureship of AMS. She is an editorial board member for Journal of Physics A, Physical Review E, Physical Review X, SIMODS, Machine Learning: Science and Technology, and Information and Inference. Lenka's expertise is in applications of concepts from statistical physics, such as advanced mean field methods, replica method and related message-passing algorithms, to problems in machine learning, signal processing, inference and optimization. She enjoys erasing the boundaries between theoretical physics, mathematics and computer science.

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