| 000 | 02394nam a22003498i 4500 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 001 | CR9780511761546 | ||
| 003 | UkCbUP | ||
| 005 | 20200124160302.0 | ||
| 006 | m|||||o||d|||||||| | ||
| 007 | cr|||||||||||| | ||
| 008 | 100506s2010||||enk o ||1 0|eng|d | ||
| 020 | _a9780511761546 (ebook) | ||
| 020 | _z9780521193030 (hardback) | ||
| 040 |
_aUkCbUP _beng _erda _cUkCbUP |
||
| 050 | 0 | 0 |
_aQC175.16.P5 _bB74 2010 |
| 082 | 0 | 0 |
_a530.14 _222 |
| 100 | 1 |
_aBrézin, E., _eauthor. |
|
| 245 | 1 | 0 |
_aIntroduction to statistical field theory / _cEdouard Brézin. |
| 264 | 1 |
_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2010. |
|
| 300 |
_a1 online resource (x, 166 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s). |
||
| 336 |
_atext _btxt _2rdacontent |
||
| 337 |
_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia |
||
| 338 |
_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier |
||
| 500 | _aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). | ||
| 505 | 8 | _aMachine generated contents note: 1. A few well-known basic results; 2. Introduction: order parameters, broken symmetries; 3. Examples of physical situations modelled by the Ising model; 4. A few results about the Ising model; 5. High temperature and low temperature expansions; 6. Some geometric problems related to phase transitions; 7. Phenomenological description of the critical behaviour; 8. Mean field theory; 9. Beyond mean field theory; 10. Introduction to the renormalization group; 11. Renormalization group for the [phi]4 theory; 12. Renormalized theory; 13. Goldstone modes; 14. Large n; Index. | |
| 520 | _aKnowledge of the renormalization group and field theory is a key part of physics, and is essential in condensed matter and particle physics. Written for advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students, this textbook provides a concise introduction to this subject. The textbook deals directly with the loop expansion of the free energy, also known as the background field method. This is a powerful method, especially when dealing with symmetries, and statistical mechanics. In focussing on free energy, the author avoids long developments on field theory techniques. The necessity of renormalization then follows. | ||
| 650 | 0 | _aPhase transformations (Statistical physics) | |
| 650 | 0 | _aField theory (Physics) | |
| 650 | 0 | _aStatistical mechanics. | |
| 776 | 0 | 8 |
_iPrint version: _z9780521193030 |
| 856 | 4 | 0 | _uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511761546 |
| 999 |
_c520453 _d520451 |
||