Phys 150: Information and Entropy 2022

Course description

Course Assistants

  • Taha Ayfer, Osman Ergeç, Dilara Kosva, Ali Pazarcı, Şebnem Karaçubuk, Yağmur Bülbül,

Projects

Projects will involve studying a paper of interest, writing a 5 – (infinity) page report, and making a brief oral presentation (30 minutes) at the end of the course. Below are project suggestions with brief descriptions, each student is supposed to prepare one project. Please, try to decide on your project topic by April 01, 2022.

All project reports should be typed in LaTeX.

  1. Hannay, J. H. “Carnot and the fields formulation of elementary thermodynamics.” American journal of physics 74.2 (2006): 134-140 [link]
  2. Loebl, Martin, and Iain Moffatt. “A permanent formula for the Jones polynomial.” Advances in Applied Mathematics 47.4 (2011): 659-667 [link]
  3. Carfora, Mauro, Annalisa Marzuoli, and Mario Rasetti. “Quantum tetrahedra.” The Journal of Physical Chemistry A 113.52 (2009): 15376-15383 [link]
  4. Loebl, Martin. “Chromatic polynomial, q-binomial counting and colored Jones function.” Advances in Mathematics 211.2 (2007): 546-565 [link]
  5. Wang, Wenlong, Rogelio Díaz-Méndez, and Raudys Capdevila. “Solving the one-dimensional Ising chain via mathematical induction: an intuitive approach to the transfer matrix.” European Journal of Physics 40.6 (2019): 065102 [link]
  6. Frieden, B. R., A. Plastino, A. R. Plastino, and B. H. Soffer. “Fisher-based thermodynamics: Its Legendre transform and concavity properties.” Physical Review E 60, no. 1 (1999): 48 [link]
  7. Borland, Lisa, Angel R. Plastino, and Constantino Tsallis. “Information gain within nonextensive thermostatistics.” Journal of Mathematical Physics 39.12 (1998): 6490-6501 [link]
  8. Skarke, H. (2013). Why is the Legendre transformation its own inverse?. American Journal of Physics, 81(7), 554-555 [link]
  9. Hoffmann, H. J. (2012). A new interpretation of Legendre’s transformation and consequences. Materialwissenschaft und Werkstofftechnik, 43(8), 687-698 [link]
  10. Welsh, Dominic JA, and Criel Merino. “The Potts model and the Tutte polynomial.” Journal of Mathematical Physics 41.3 (2000): 1127-1152 [link]
  11. Johnston, D. A., W. Janke, and R. Kenna. “Information Geometry, One, Two, Three (and Four)[PACS numbers: 02.50.–r, 05.70. Fh].” Acta Physica Polonica. Series B 34 (2003) [link]
  12. Janke, W., D. A. Johnston, and Ralph Kenna. “Information geometry and phase transitions.” Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 336.1-2 (2004): 181-186 [link]
  13. Quevedo, Hernando, Alberto Sánchez, and Alejandro Vázquez. “Relativistic like structure of classical thermodynamics.” General Relativity and Gravitation 47.4 (2015): 1-18 [link]
  14. Florkowski, Wojciech. “Anisotropic fluid dynamics in the early stage of relativistic heavy-ion collisions.” Physics Letters B 668.1 (2008): 32-35 [link]
  15. Lieb, Elliott H. “Solution of the dimer problem by the transfer matrix method.” Journal of Mathematical Physics 8.12 (1967): 2339-2341 [link]
  16. Honmura, R., and T. Kaneyoshi. “Contribution to the new type of effective-field theory of the Ising model.” Journal of Physics C: Solid State Physics 12.19 (1979): 3979 [link]
  17. Leff, Harvey S. “Teaching the photon gas in introductory physics.” American Journal of Physics 70.8 (2002): 792-797 [link]