-What is the minimal condition in a thermodynamic system
in order to have a phase transition?
-What is the main difference between first and second
order phase transitions?
-Give us examples of first and second order phase
transitions.
-Sketch on a figure how the order parameter is varying in
the neighborhood of the critical point
for first and second order phase transitions.
- Give us the order
parameter for one specific phase transition.
- What are the
critical exponents? Why are they important?
- What is a scaling
law between the critical exponents?
- What are the two
possible phases in the Ising model?
- What kind of
phase transition is in the Ising model?
- Is there a phase
transition in the one-dimensional Ising model?
- What is the main
idea of the mean-field solution for the Ising model?
- Under which cases
the mean-field solution of the Ising model becomes better and better.