ELEM PHASE TRANSIT & CRITIC PHENOM OGT C

Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-0-19-957722-4
Verlag: ACADEMIC

Buch, Englisch, 384 Seiten, Format (B × H): 175 mm x 250 mm, Gewicht: 824 g

Reihe: Oxford Graduate Texts

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.

As an introductory account of the theory of phase transitions and critical phenomena, this book reflects lectures given by the authors to graduate students at their departments and is thus classroom-tested to help beginners enter the field. Most parts are written as self-contained units and every new concept or calculation is explained in detail without assuming prior knowledge of the subject. The book significantly enhances and revises a Japanese version which is a bestseller in the Japanese
market and is considered a standard textbook in the field. It contains new pedagogical presentations of field theory methods, including a chapter on conformal field theory, and various modern developments hard to find in a single textbook on phase transitions. Exercises are presented as the topics
develop, with solutions found at the end of the book, making the text useful for self-teaching, as well as for classroom learning.

Zielgruppe

Graduate students and researchers in physics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nishimori, Ortiz

Nishimori, Hidetoshi

Ortiz, Gerardo

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Physik Physik Allgemein Theoretische Physik, Mathematische Physik, Computerphysik
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Thermodynamik Physik der Zustandsübergänge
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Thermodynamik Festkörperphysik, Kondensierte Materie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1: Phase transitions and critical phenomena
2: Mean-field theories
3: Renormalization group and scaling
4: Implementation of the renormalization group
5: Field theory
6: Conformal field theory
7: Kosterlitz-Thouless transition
8: Random systems
9: Exact solutions and related topics
10: Duality
11: Numerical methods
Appendix: Solutions to exercises

Über Autor(innen)

Ortiz, Gerardo
Gerardo Ortiz, Department of Physics, Indiana University, Bloomington

Nishimori, Hidetoshi
Hidetoshi Nishimori, Department of Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology

After spending three years as a postdoctoral fellow at Carnegie-Mellon University and Rutgers University in the US, Hidetoshi Nishimori returned to Japan, first as a research associate at Tokyo Institute of Technology. He is now a professor of physics at the same Institute. He received the Nishina Memorial Prize in 2006 for his work on spin glasses. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics.

After receiving his PhD in Theoretical Physics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Gerardo Ortiz continued his career in the US, first as a postdoctoral fellow in the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and then as an Oppenheimer fellow at the Los Alamos National Laboratory ,where he stayed as a permanent staff member until 2006. He is currently professor of Physics at Indiana University, Bloomington. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics.