Statistical Field Theory: Volume 1, From Brownian Motion to Renormalization and Lattice Gauge Theory
A comprehensive and timely survey of the application of the methods of quantum field theory to statistical physics, a very active and fruitful area of modern research, is provided in two volumes. The first volume provides a pedagogical introduction to the subject, discussing Brownian motion, its anticommutative counterpart in the guise of Onsager's solution to the two-dimensional Ising model, the mean field or Landau approximation, scaling ideas exemplified by the Kosterlitz-Thouless theory for the XY transition, the continuous renormalization group applied to the standard phi-to-the-fourth theory (the simplest typical case) and lattice gauge theory as a pathway to the understanding of quark confinement in quantum chromodynamics.
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Statistical Field Theory: Volume 1, From Brownian Motion to Renormalization and Lattice Gauge Theory
A comprehensive and timely survey of the application of the methods of quantum field theory to statistical physics, a very active and fruitful area of modern research, is provided in two volumes. The first volume provides a pedagogical introduction to the subject, discussing Brownian motion, its anticommutative counterpart in the guise of Onsager's solution to the two-dimensional Ising model, the mean field or Landau approximation, scaling ideas exemplified by the Kosterlitz-Thouless theory for the XY transition, the continuous renormalization group applied to the standard phi-to-the-fourth theory (the simplest typical case) and lattice gauge theory as a pathway to the understanding of quark confinement in quantum chromodynamics.
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Statistical Field Theory: Volume 1, From Brownian Motion to Renormalization and Lattice Gauge Theory
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Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780521408059 |
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| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Publication date: | 03/29/1991 |
| Series: | Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics , #1 |
| Edition description: | Reprint |
| Pages: | 428 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.98(w) x 8.94(h) x 0.91(d) |
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