
A Primer to the Theory of Critical Phenomena
Description
Key Features
- Provides a thorough and accessible treatment of the fundamentals of critical phenomena
- Offers an in-depth exposition on renormalization and field theory techniques
- Includes experimental observations of critical effects
- Includes live examples illustrating the applications of the theoretical material
Readership
Scientists in academia and industry and graduate students in physics, chemistry, and geochemistry
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: Classical Phases and Critical Points
2. The Ising Model and Its Basic Characteristics in the Mean Field Approximation
3. General Mean Field Approach
4. The Landau Theory of Phase Transitions: General concept and its microscopic relation to mean eld theory
5. More General Considerations Concerning Mean Field Theory: Stratonovich-Hubbard transformation
6. Generalities Relating to the Study of Critical Phenomena
7. Failure of Mean Field Theory and Scaling Methods
8. Kadanoff Scaling
9. The Renormalization Group Operations
10. Additional Interrelations Between Critical Exponents
11. Renormalization Group Operations
12. Detection of Fixed Points
13. The Standard Gaussian Model
14. Higher Order Expansion
15. The Ginzburg-Landau Model
Product details
- No. of pages: 254
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Elsevier Science 2018
- Published: February 5, 2018
- Imprint: Elsevier Science
- eBook ISBN: 9780128048368
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128046852
About the Authors
Jurgen Honig

Prof. Honig has earned an honorary degree from the University of Science and Technology (2009, Krakow, Poland; fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences; Wetherill medal (1995); Editor, Journal of Solid State Chemistry (1982- 2000); Honorary Member, Materials Research Society of India; two issues of the Journal of Solid State Chemistry (1990 and 2000) and an issue of Solid State Sciences (2000) dedicated to him; and a session at a Materials Research Society meeting (2000) held in honor of his retirement.
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Jozef Spalek

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