Elements of Phase Transitions and Critical Phenomena

Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-0-19-875408-4
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 374 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 173 mm x 248 mm, Gewicht: 746 g

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 Japenese 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 usefil for self-teaching, as well as for classroom learning.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nishimori, Hidetoshi

Ortiz, Gerardo

Fachgebiete

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

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)

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 Institute of Physics.

After receiving his PhD in Theoretical Physics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Gerardo Oritz 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.