Renormalization Methods: A Guide for Beginners

by William David McComb

Book 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199236526
• ISBN13: 9780199236527
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 9.4" x 6.6"