A Primer to the Theory of Critical Phenomena

This thorough and accessible reference provides the scientific fundamentals of critical phenomena and phase transitions—a field that has developed tremendously over the last 40 years

Jurgen M. Honig (Author), Jozef Spalek (Author)

9780128046852, Elsevier Science

Paperback, published 7 February 2018

254 pages
22.9 x 15.1 x 1.7 cm, 0.43 kg

A Primer to the Theory of Critical Phenomena provides scientists in academia and industry, as well as graduate students in physics, chemistry, and geochemistry with the scientific fundamentals of critical phenomena and phase transitions. The book helps readers broaden their understanding of a field that has developed tremendously over the last forty years. The book also makes a great resource for graduate level instructors at universities.

1. Introduction: Classical Phases and Critical Points2. The Ising Model and Its Basic Characteristics in the Mean Field Approximation3. General Mean Field Approach4. The Landau Theory of Phase Transitions: General concept and its microscopic relation to mean eld theory5. More General Considerations Concerning Mean Field Theory: Stratonovich-Hubbard transformation_x0003_6. Generalities Relating to the Study of Critical Phenomena7. Failure of Mean Field Theory and Scaling Methods8. Kadanoff Scaling9. The Renormalization Group Operations10. Additional Interrelations Between Critical Exponents11. Renormalization Group Operations12. Detection of Fixed Points13. The Standard Gaussian Model14. Higher Order Expansion15. The Ginzburg-Landau Model

Subject Areas: Quantum physics [quantum mechanics & quantum field theory PHQ]