Field Theory of Critical Phenomena
by G. Delfino (6 credits, type A)

Main topics
Spontaneous symmetry breaking, phase transitions and critical behavior
Scaling, renormalization and universality
Perturbative renormalization group
Universality classes (Ising, Potts, O(n), percolation, self-avoiding walks, …)
Quenched disorder and random critical points
Conformal and integrable field theories
Low-dimensional aspects (Kosterlitz-Thouless transition, continuously varying exponents, bosonization, …)
From exact S-matrices to correlation functions
Phase separation, interfaces and wetting