Lecture Notes (pdf)

1. First Installment
2. Second Installment
3. Third Installment
4. Fourth Installment -- 22 Sep
5. Fifth Installment -- Sep 27
6. Sixth Installment -- Oct 4
7. Seventh Installment -- Oct 15
8. Eighth Installment -- Oct 25
9. Ninth Installment -- Nov 17
10. Tenth Installment -- Nov 29
11. Some pictures from Monte Carlo simulations of 2D Scalar Field Model using Metropolis (L=4, lambda=0.5)
    • Energy vs kappa
    • Specific Heat vs kappa
    • Average Field vs kappa
    • Susceptibility vs kappa
    • Error vs bin level
12. L=8 data
    • Correlator at kappa=0.6
    • Correlation length vs kappa
    • Susceptibility vs kappa
    • Sqrt autocorrelation time vs correlation length kappa in range 0.4-0.7
13. Cluster Simulation
    • Specific Heat (L=4) vs kappa
    • Average Field vs kappa
14. Gauge Models
    • Energy for Z(2) gauge model in D=4 (L=4)
    • MC time series at transition -- metastability
    • String tension for D=4 Z(2) gauge model vs beta
    • Mean Action for D=4 SU(3) model vs beta
    • String Tension for SU(3) model vs beta
15. Random Surface Models
    • Random Surface simulation (Java)
    • Specific Heat for crystalline random surface model as function of bending rigidity coupling
    • 4D quantum gravity simulation implemented using random fluctuating triangulations