Scaling and Renormalization in Statistical Physics

by John Cardy

This text provides a thoroughly modern graduate-level introduction to the theory of critical behavior. Beginning with a brief review of phase transitions in simple systems and of mean field theory, the text then goes on to introduce the core ideas of the renormalization group. Following chapters cover phase diagrams, fixed points, cross-over behavior, finite-size scaling, perturbative renormalization methods, low-dimensional systems, surface critical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521499593
• ISBN13: 9780521499590
• Release Date: April 1996
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 9.1"