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Statistical Field Theory: Volume 1, From Brownian Motion to Renormalization and Lattice Gauge Theory: Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics

Autor Claude Itzykson, Jean-Michel Drouffe
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 mar 1991
Volume 1: From Brownian Motion to Renormalization and Lattice Gauge Theory. Volume 2: Strong Coupling, Monte Carlo Methods, Conformal Field Theory, and Random Systems. This two-volume work provides a comprehensive and timely survey of the application of the methods of quantum field theory to statistical physics, a very active and fruitful area of modern research. The first volume provides a pedagogical introduction to the subject, discussing Brownian motion, its anticommutative counterpart in the guise of Onsager's solution to the two-dimensional Ising model, the mean field or Landau approximation, scaling ideas exemplified by the Kosterlitz-Thouless theory for the XY transition, the continuous renormalization group applied to the standard phi-to the fourth theory (the simplest typical case) and lattice gauge theory as a pathway to the understanding of quark confinement in quantum chromodynamics. The second volume covers more diverse topics, including strong coupling expansions and their analysis, Monte Carlo simulations, two-dimensional conformal field theory, and simple disordered systems. The book concludes with a chapter on random geometry and the Polyakov model of random surfaces which illustrates the relations between string theory and statistical physics. The two volumes that make up this work will be useful to theoretical physicists and applied mathematicians who are interested in the exciting developments which have resulted from the synthesis of field theory and statistical physics.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780521408059
ISBN-10: 0521408059
Pagini: 428
Ilustrații: black & white illustrations
Dimensiuni: 152 x 227 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.69 kg
Ediția:Reprint
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Seria Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics

Locul publicării:Cambridge, United Kingdom

Cuprins

1. From Brownian motion to Euclidean fields; 2. Grassmannian integrals and two-dimensional Ising models; 3. Spontaneous symmetry breaking; 4. Scaling transformations and the XY-model; 5. Continuous field theory and the renormalization group; 6. Lattice gauge fields.

Recenzii

"I strongly recommend these two volumes to anyone from intermediate graduate students to active experienced researchers to aging veterans who need to be reminded of or learn for the first time the broad conceptual framework underlying the many current applications of field theoretic methods." Paul Ginsparg, Foundations of Physics
"...an excellent pedagogically oriented introduction to the essential fundamentals of this rapidly expanding field. The level of treatment and clarity make it suitable for use as a primary reference in a graduate course." D. J. Geldart, Physics in Canada

Descriere

This two-volume work provides a comprehensive and timely survey of the application of the methods of quantum field theory to statistical physics, a very active and fruitful area of modern research.