Applications of Field Theory to Statistical Mechanics [[electronic resource] ] : Proceedings of the Sitges Conference on Statistical Mechanics Sitges, Barcelona/Spain, June 10–15, 1984 / / edited by L. Garrido

• Record Nr.: UNISA996466681203316
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 1985
• ISBN: 3-540-39134-7
• Edizione: [1st ed. 1985.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (VIII, 355 p. 3 illus.)
• Collana: Lecture Notes in Physics, , 0075-8450 ; ; 216
• Disciplina: 536.7
• Soggetti: Thermodynamics; Statistical physics; Dynamical systems; Quantum computers; Spintronics; Quantum physics; Complex Systems; Quantum Information Technology, Spintronics; Quantum Physics; Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di contenuto: Prologue A functional perturbative approach to the classical statistical mechanics -- The structure and statistical mechanics of glass -- The statistical mechanics of surfaces -- Surface effects in phase transitions -- On the Ising spin glass I. Mean field -- On the Ising spin glass II. Fluctuations -- The wetting transition -- Grassmann variables and supersymmetry in the theory of disordered systems -- Rigorous studies of critical behavior -- Anderson transition and nonlinear ?-model -- Non-perturbative renormalisation in field theory -- Stochastlc quantization: Regularization and renormalization -- Self avoiding random walk and the renormalisation group -- Field theory of the metal-insulator transitions in restricted symmetries -- Surface tension ; and supercooling in solidification theory -- Order and frustration on a random topography -- On the equation ?? = ?2sinh ? and its applications -- The uses of Zeta-function regularization in the dielectric gauge theory of quark confinement -- One dimensional Heisenberg Ferromagnet equation and the Painleve test -- Nonlinear crystal growth near the roughening-transition -- The dynamics of bose-einstein condensation -- Decay properties of correlations in massless models : The method of correlation inequalities -- Nonasymptotic critical phenomena -- Large n expansions for paramagnetic to helical phase transitions -- The maximal chain model— a one dimensional system with a first-order phase transition -- Directed lattice animals and the Yang-Lee-Edge singularity -- Real space renormalization group treatment of superradiance -- Kondo effect in a one dimensional interacting electron system -- Time-dependent nucleation in systems with conserved order parameter -- Mastersymmetries for completely integrable systems in statistical mechanics -- Scaling approach to self-avoiding random walks and surfaces -- Long-time dynamics of coupled non-linear oscillators -- Nonlinear quantum fluctuation-dissipation relations -- Effects of surface exchange anisotropies on critical and multicritical behavior at surfaces -- Dirichlet forms and schrodinger operators.