Scaling and Renormalization in Statistical Physics

Name: Scaling and Renormalization in Statistical Physics
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ISBN: 9780521499590

ISBN-10: 0521499593

ISBN-13: 9780521499590

Edition: 1996

Authors: John Cardy, Peter Goddard, Julia Yeomans

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This text provides a thoroughly modern graduate-level introduction to the theory of critical behaviour. It begins with a brief review of phase transitions in simple systems, then goes on to introduce the core ideas of the renormalisation group.

Book details

List price: $76.99
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 4/26/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 260
Size: 5.94" wide x 9.13" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Piers Robinson is Senior Lecturer in International Politics at the University of ManchesterPeter Goddard is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Communication and Media at the University of Liverpool



Preface



Phase transitions in simple systems



Mean field theory



The renormalization group idea



Phase diagrams and fixed points



The perturbative renormalization group



Near two dimensions



Surface critical behaviour



Random systems



Polymer statistics



Critical dynamics



Conformal symmetry


Appendix: Gaussian integration


Selected bibliography


Index