Building on Wilson's renormalization group, the authors have developed a unified approach that not only reproduces known results but also yields new results. A systematic exposition of the contemporary theory of phase transitions, the book includes detailed discussions of phenomena in Heisenberg magnets, granular super-conducting alloys, anisotropic systems of dipoles, and liquid-vapor transitions. Suitable for advanced undergraduates as well as graduate students in physics, the text assumes some knowledge of statistical mechanics, but is otherwise self-contained.
| Author: Yuli M. Ivanchenko |
| Publisher: Springer |
| Publication Date: Aug 22, 2012 |
| Number of Pages: 390 pages |
| Binding: Paperback or Softback |
| ISBN-10: 1461286956 |
| ISBN-13: 9781461286950 |