Renormalization Methods
William David McComb
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Description for Renormalization Methods
hardcover. There is widespread interest in applications of renormalization methods to various topics, ranging from fluid turbulence to fluctuations in the stock market. This book covers a range of renormalization methods with a physical interpretation and motivation, including mean-field theories and high-temperature and low-density expansions. Num Pages: 348 pages, numerous figures. BIC Classification: PBW; PHS; PNR; TGB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 245 x 175 x 24. Weight in Grams: 750.
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 interpretation (and motivation), including mean-field theories and high-temperature and low-density expansions. It then proceeds by easy steps to the famous epsilon-expansion, ending up with the first-order corrections to critical exponents beyond mean-field theory. Nowadays there is widespread interest in applications of renormalization methods to various topics ranging over soft condensed matter, engineering dynamics, traffic queueing and fluctuations in the stock market. Hence macroscopic systems are also included, with particular ... Read more
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 interpretation (and motivation), including mean-field theories and high-temperature and low-density expansions. It then proceeds by easy steps to the famous epsilon-expansion, ending up with the first-order corrections to critical exponents beyond mean-field theory. Nowadays there is widespread interest in applications of renormalization methods to various topics ranging over soft condensed matter, engineering dynamics, traffic queueing and fluctuations in the stock market. Hence macroscopic systems are also included, with particular ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
348
Condition
New
Number of Pages
348
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780198506942
SKU
V9780198506942
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99-1
About William David McComb
William David McComb is currently Professor of Statistical Physics at the University of Edinburgh. He was Senior Scientific Officer of the Theoretical Physics Division, Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Harwell in the years 1969-71.
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