Quantum Phase Transitions

Name: Quantum Phase Transitions
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ISBN: 9780521514682

ISBN-10: 0521514681

ISBN-13: 9780521514682

Edition: 2nd 2011

Authors: Subir Sachdev

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Book details

List price: $124.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 4/7/2011
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 516
Size: 7.64" wide x 9.96" long x 1.06" tall
Weight: 2.794
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



Overview



A First Course



Classical phase transitions



The renormalization group



The quantum Ising model



The quantum rotor model



Correlations, susceptibilities, and the quantum critical point



Broken symmetries



Boson Hubbard model



Non-zero Temperatures



The Ising chain in a transverse field



Quantum rotor models: large-N limit



The d = 1, O(N ≥ 3) rotor models



The d = 2, O(N ≥ 3) rotor models



Physics close to and above the upper-critical dimension



Transport in d = 2



Other Models



Dilute Fermi and Bose gases



Phase transitions of Dirac fermions



Fermi liquids, and their phase transitions



Heisenberg spins: ferromagnets and antiferromagnets



Spin chains: bosonization



Magnetic ordering transitions of disordered systems



Quantum spin glasses


References


Index