Quantum Phase Transitions

Name: Quantum Phase Transitions
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ISBN: 9780521004541

ISBN-10: 0521004543

ISBN-13: 9780521004541

Edition: 2001

Authors: Subir Sachdev

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In detail, this text describes the fundamental changes that can occur in the macroscopic nature of matter at zero temperature due to small variations in a given external parameter.

Book details

List price: $84.99
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 4/23/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 7.09" wide x 10.04" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English

Subir Sachdev is Professor of Physics at Harvard University and holds a Distinguished Research Chair at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. His research has focused on a variety of quantum materials and especially on their quantum phase transitions.




Introduction



Basic concepts



The mapping to classical statistical mechanics: single site models



Overview



Quantum Ising and Rotor Models



The Ising chain in a transverse field



Quantum rotor models: large N limit



The d = 1, 0 (N greater than or equal to 3) rotor models



The d = 2 (N greater than or equal to 3) rotor models



Physics close to and above the upper-critical dimension



Transport in d = 2






Boston Hubbard model



Dilute Fermi and Bose gases



Phase transitions of Fermi liquids



Heisenberg spins: ferromagnets and antiferromagnets



Spin chains: bosonization



Magnetic ordering transitions of disordered systems



Quantum spin glasses