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Elements of phase transitions and critical phenomena / Hidetoshi Nishimori, Gerardo Ortiz.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nishimori, Hidetoshi.
- Series:
- Oxford graduate texts.
- Oxford graduate texts
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Phase transformations (Statistical physics).
- Critical phenomena (Physics).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 358 p. ) ill. ;
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Phase transitions and critical phenomena
- Mean-field theories
- Renormalization group and scaling
- Implementation of the renormalization group
- Field theory
- Conformal field theory
- Kosterlitz-Thouless transition
- Random systems
- Exact solutions and related topics
- Duality
- Numerical methods.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-172294-4
- OCLC:
- 700953383
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