Renormalization Methods: A Guide For Beginners / Edition 1

Renormalization Methods: A Guide For Beginners / Edition 1

by William David McComb
ISBN-10:
0199236526
ISBN-13:
9780199236527
Pub. Date:
01/06/2008
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
ISBN-10:
0199236526
ISBN-13:
9780199236527
Pub. Date:
01/06/2008
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Renormalization Methods: A Guide For Beginners / Edition 1

Renormalization Methods: A Guide For Beginners / Edition 1

by William David McComb

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Overview

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 interpretations (and motivation), including mean fields theories and high-temperature and low-density expansions. It then process by each 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 queuing 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 physics, as it requires only the basic physics and mathematics which should be known to most scientists, engineers and mathematicians.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780199236527
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 01/06/2008
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 352
Product dimensions: 6.63(w) x 9.43(h) x 0.78(d)

About the Author

Professor William David McComb is a professor of Statistical Physics at the Univeristy of Edinburgh

Table of Contents

What is renormalization? Chapter 1. The bedrock problem:why we need renormalization methodsChapter 2. Easy applications of renomalization group (RG) to simple modelsChapter 3. Mean-field theories for simple modelsRenormalization perturbation theories (RPT)Chapter 4. Perturbation theory using a control parameterChapter 5. Classical nonlinear systems driven by random noiseChapter 6. Application of RPT to turbulence and related problemsRenormalization groupChapter 7. Setting the scene: critical pehnomenaChapter 8. Real-space RGChapter 9. Momentum-space RGChapter 10. Field-theoretic RGChapter 11. Dynamical RG applied to classic nonlinear systemsAppendicesChapter A. Statistical ensemblesChapter B. From statistical mechanics to thermodynamicsChapter C. Exact Solutions in one and two dimensionsChapter D. Quantum Treatment of the Hamiltonian N-body assemblyChapter E. Generalization of the Bogoliubov variational method to a spatially-varying magnetic field
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