Statistical physics : statics, dynamics and renormalization

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Statistical physics : statics, dynamics and renormalization

Leo P. Kadanoff

World Scientific, c2000

  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Description

The material presented in this invaluable textbook has been tested in two courses. One of these is a graduate-level survey of statistical physics; the other, a rather personal perspective on critical behavior. Thus, this book defines a progression starting at the book-learning part of graduate education and ending in the midst of topics at the research level. To supplement the research-level side the book includes some research papers. Several of these are classics in the field, including a suite of six works on self-organized criticality and complexity, a pair on diffusion-limited aggregation, some papers on correlations near critical points, a few of the basic sources on the development of the real-space renormalization group, and several papers on magnetic behavior in a plain geometry. In addition, the author has included a few of his own papers.

Table of Contents

  • Fundamentals of statistical physics: the lectures - a survey
  • one particle and many
  • Gaussian distributions
  • quantum mechanics and lattices. Random dynamics: diffusion and hopping
  • from hops to statistical mechanics
  • correlations and response. More statistical mechanics: statistical thermodynamics
  • Fermi, Bose, and other. Phase transitions: overview of phase transitions
  • mean field theory of critical behaviour
  • continuous phase transitions
  • renormalization in one dimension
  • real space renormalization techniques
  • duality
  • planar model and Coulomb systems
  • XY model, renormalization and duality.

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