Scaling and Renormalizing in Statistical Physics

Klappentext A thoroughly modern graduate-level introduction to the theory of critical behaviour. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. Phase transitions in simple systems; 2. Mean field theory; 3. The renormalization group idea; 4. Phase diagrams and fixed points; 5. The perturbative renormalization group; 6. Near two dimensions; 7. Surface critical behaviour; 8. Random systems; 9. Polymer statistics; 10. Critical dynamics; 11. Conformal symmetry; Appendix: Gaussian integration; Selected bibliography; Index.

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• Authors: John Cardy, John L. Cardy
• Assisted by: Peter Goddard (Editor), Julia Yeomans (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.04.1996
• EAN: 9780521499590
• ISBN: 978-0-521-49959-0
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 230 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Cambridge Lecture Notes in Phy
• Subject: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology