Statistical physics : statics, dynamics and renormalization /

Statistical physics : statics, dynamics and renormalization /

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The material presented in this invaluable textbook has been tested in two courses. One of these is a graduate-level survey of statistical physics; the other, a rather personal perspective on critical behavior. Thus, this book defines a progression starting at the book-learning part of graduate educa...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kadanoff, Leo P.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore ; River Edge, N.J. : World Scientific, �2000.
Subjects:
Statistical physics.
Scaling laws (Statistical physics)
Renormalization (Physics)
SCIENCE > Physics > General.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • The Lectures: A Survey
  • One Particle and Many
  • Gaussian Distributions
  • Quantum Mechanics and Lattices
  • Random Dynamics
  • Diffusion and Hopping
  • From Hops to Statistical Mechanics
  • Correlations and Response
  • More Statistical Mechanics
  • Statistical Thermodynamics
  • Fermi, Bose, and Other
  • Phase Transitions
  • Overview of Phase Transitions
  • Mean Field Theory of Critical Behavior
  • Continuous Phase Transitions
  • Renormalization in One Dimension
  • Real Space Renormalization Techniques
  • Duality
  • Planar Model and Coulomb Systems
  • XY Model, Renormalization, and Duality.

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