Elements of phase transitions and critical phenomena / / Hidetoshi Nishimori, Gerardo Ortiz.
An introductory account of the theory of phase transitions and critical phenomena, this book reflects lectures given by the authors to graduate students at their departments and is thus classroom-tested to help beginners enter the field.
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| Superior document: | Oxford graduate texts |
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| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Oxford graduate texts.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 358 p. ); ill. ; |
| Notes: | Includes index. |
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Table of Contents:
- Phase transitions and critical phenomena
- Mean-field theories
- Renormalization group and scaling
- Implementation of the renormalization group
- Field theory
- Conformal field theory
- Kosterlitz-Thouless transition
- Random systems
- Exact solutions and related topics
- Duality
- Numerical methods.