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Record Nr.

UNISA996466816903316

Titolo

Critical Phenomena [[electronic resource] ] : Sitges International School on Statistical Mechanics, June 1976 Sitges, Barcelona/Spain / / edited by J. Brey, R.B. Jones

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 1976

ISBN

3-540-38106-6

Edizione

[1st ed. 1976.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XI, 386 p.)

Collana

Lecture Notes in Physics, , 0075-8450 ; ; 54

Disciplina

530

Soggetti

Physics

Physics, general

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Critical phenomena and scale invariance -- Invariance properties of the renormalization group -- Scale transformations in dynamic models -- Critical dynamics in fokker-planck formalism -- Dynamic critical phenomena and the renormalization group — Application to a Lattice dynamic model -- The algebraic approach.to quantum statistical mechanics. Equilibrium states and hierarchy of stability -- Theorems on phase transitions with a treatment for the Ising model -- Statistical mechanics of equilibrium systems: Some rigorous results -- Probabilistic aspects of critical fluctuations -- The application of renormalization group techniques to quarks and strings -- The role of spontaneous broken symmetry.