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Conformal Invariance and Critical Phenomena
Malte Henkel
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Description for Conformal Invariance and Critical Phenomena
Hardback. This introduction to conformal field theory and review of applications to critical phenomena in condensed-matter systems presents simple phase transitions, and explains the foundations of conformal invariance and related algebraic methods. Series: Theoretical and Mathematical Physics. Num Pages: 435 pages, 63 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: PHFC; PHQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 791.
Critical phenomena arise in a wide variety of physical systems. Classi cal examples are the liquid-vapour critical point or the paramagnetic ferromagnetic transition. Further examples include multicomponent fluids and alloys, superfluids, superconductors, polymers and fully developed tur bulence and may even extend to the quark-gluon plasma and the early uni verse as a whole. Early theoretical investigators tried to reduce the problem to a very small number of degrees of freedom, such as the van der Waals equation and mean field approximations, culminating in Landau's general theory of critical phenomena. Nowadays, it is understood that the common ground for all ... Read more
Critical phenomena arise in a wide variety of physical systems. Classi cal examples are the liquid-vapour critical point or the paramagnetic ferromagnetic transition. Further examples include multicomponent fluids and alloys, superfluids, superconductors, polymers and fully developed tur bulence and may even extend to the quark-gluon plasma and the early uni verse as a whole. Early theoretical investigators tried to reduce the problem to a very small number of degrees of freedom, such as the van der Waals equation and mean field approximations, culminating in Landau's general theory of critical phenomena. Nowadays, it is understood that the common ground for all ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
Number of pages
435
Condition
New
Series
Theoretical and Mathematical Physics
Number of Pages
418
Place of Publication
Berlin, Germany
ISBN
9783540653219
SKU
V9783540653219
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