An important contributor to our current understanding of critical phenomena, Ma introduces the beginner--especially the graduate student with no previous knowledge of the subject-to fundamental theoretical concepts such as mean field theory, the scaling hypothesis, and the renormalization group.

He then goes on to apply the renormalization group to selected problems, with emphasis on the underlying physics and the basic assumptions involved.


Format Häftad Omfång 588 sidor Språk Engelska Förlag Taylor & Francis Inc Utgivningsdatum 2000-07-14 ISBN 9780738203010