Key methods and concepts in condensed matter physics : Green's functions and real space renormalization group / Mucio Amado Continentino.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Continentino, Mucio Amado, author.

Contributor:

Institute of Physics (Great Britain), publisher.

Series:

IOP ebooks.

IOP ebooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Renormalization (Physics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (various pagings) : illustrations (some color).

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Green's functions and real space renormalization group.

Place of Publication:

Bristol [England] (Temple Circus, Temple Way, Bristol BS1 6HG, UK) : IOP Publishing, [2021]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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Biography/History:

Mucio Amado Continentino is a Full Professor at The Brazilian Center for Research in Physics (CBPF). He is a member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences and has published more than 250 papers in the field of condensed matter physics. He has supervised many theses on several subjects in this area and has taught many courses at CBPF and Universidade Federal Fluminense. His last book Quantum Scaling in Many-body Systems: An Approach to Quantum Phase Transitions was published in 2017.

Summary:

This book aims to present a concise introduction, for graduate students and researchers, to powerful techniques and important concepts in condensed matter physics. Key conceptual elements include the fluctuation-dissipation theorem, the theory of critical phenomena (both classical and quantum) and the renormalization group. The book focuses on the Green's functions method and the real space renormalization group (RG).

Contents:

1. The fluctuation-dissipation theorem

1.1. Introduction

1.2. Linear response theory

1.3. Fluctuation-dissipation theorem

2. Green's function method

2.1. Green's functions and correlations

2.2. Spin-waves in ferromagnets

2.3. Critical exponents

3. Perturbative method for Green's functions

3.1. Time independent perturbations

3.2. Time dependent perturbations

4. Green's functions and disorder

4.1. Configuration averaged Green's function

4.2. Spin wave propagation in disordered media as a random frequency modulation problem

4.3. The infinite range ferromagnet

4.4. The infinite range random Heisenberg ferromagnet

4.5. Appendix

5. Real space renormalization group

5.1. Phase transitions and the renormalization group

5.2. Bond percolation in a square lattice

5.3. Hierarchical lattices

5.4. The Ising model

5.5. Ising ferromagnet in a magnetic field

5.6. First order phase transitions

6. Real space renormalization group : quantum systems

6.1. Quantum systems

6.2. The free energy

6.3. A simpler approach

6.4. Quantum phase transitions

7. Disordered systems

7.1. Introduction

7.2. Random field models

7.3. Random spin chains

7.4. Anderson localization

8. Topological systems

8.1. Introduction

8.2. One-dimensional Ising model in a transverse field revisited

8.3. The Su-Schriefer-Heeger model

8.4. Bulk-boundary correspondence

8.5. Spinor representation of the SSH model

8.6. Topological invariant for odd d-dimensional systems with chiral symmetry.

Notes:

"Version: 20210204"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

Title from PDF title page (viewed on May 6, 2021).

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780750333948

0750333944

9780750333955

0750333952

OCLC:

1251848171