Renormalization Methods

A Guide for Beginners
Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-0-19-923652-7
Verlag: Oxford University Press(UK)

Buch, Englisch, 352 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 605 g

This book is unique in occupying a gap between standard undergraduate texts and more advanced texts on quantum field theory. It covers a range of renormalization methods with a clear physical interpretation (and motivation), including mean-field theories and high-temperature and low-density expansions. It then proceeds by easy steps to the famous epsilon-expansion, ending up with the first-order corrections to critical exponents beyond mean-field theory. Nowadays
there is widespread interest in applications of renormalization methods to various topics ranging over soft condensed matter, engineering dynamics, traffic queueing and fluctuations in the stock market. Hence macroscopic systems are also included, with particular emphasis on the archetypal problem of
fluid turbulence. The book is also unique in making this material accessible to readers other than theoretical physicists, as it requires only the basic physics and mathematics which should be known to most scientists, engineers and mathematicians.

Autoren/Hrsg.

McComb, William David

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Physik Angewandte Physik Statistische Physik, Dynamische Systeme
• Naturwissenschaften Chemie Physikalische Chemie
• Technische Wissenschaften Maschinenbau | Werkstoffkunde Technische Mechanik | Werkstoffkunde Strömungslehre
• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Computeranwendungen in der Technik
• Technische Wissenschaften Maschinenbau | Werkstoffkunde Maschinenbau
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Thermodynamik Festkörperphysik, Kondensierte Materie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften: Allgemeines
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Angewandte Informatik Computeranwendungen in Wissenschaft & Technologie
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Quantenphysik Teilchenphysik
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Numerik und Wissenschaftliches Rechnen Angewandte Mathematik, Mathematische Modelle
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Mechanik Kontinuumsmechanik, Strömungslehre
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Physik Allgemein
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Professionelle Anwendung Computer-Aided Design (CAD)

Über Autor(innen)

Professor William David McComb
Professor of Statistical Physics
University of Edinburgh

Senior Scientific Officer, Theoretical Physics Division, Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Harwell (1969-71).
Lecturer, Reader and Professor, Edinburgh University (1971-present time).
Guest Professor, Technical University of Delft, Netherlands (August-November 1997).
Visiting Fellow, Wolfson College, Cambridge (January-July 1999).