Statistical Physics: Statics, Dynamics and Renormalization
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The material presented in this invaluable textbook has been tested in two courses. One of these is a graduate-level survey of statistical physics; the other, a rather personal perspective on critical behavior. Thus, this book defines a progression starting at the book-learning part of graduate education and ending in the midst of topics at the research level. To supplement the research-level side the book includes some research papers. Several of these are classics in the field, including a suite of six works on self-organized criticality and complexity, a pair on diffusion-limited aggregation, some papers on correlations near critical points, a few of the basic sources on the development of the real-space renormalization group, and several papers on magnetic behavior in a plain geometry. In addition, the author has included a few of his own papers. Booknews Kadanoff (physics and mathematics, U. of Chicago) presents a textbook that has been tested in a graduate survey of statistical physics and another offering a rather personal perspective on critical behavior. He begins at the book-learning part of graduate education and ends with topics at the research level supplemented with some research papers. He includes more material than can reasonably be covered in one quarter, or even two, in order to allow instructors to tailor their courses more finely. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
IntroductionIFundamentals of Statistical Physics11The Lectures - A Survey32One Particle and Many113Gaussian Distributions294Quantum Mechanics and Lattices45IIRandom Dynamics695Diffusion and Hopping716From Hops to Statistical Mechanics1197Correlations and Response155IIIMore Statistical Mechanics1698Statistical Thermodynamics1719Fermi, Bose, and Other187IVPhase Transitions20710Overview of Phase Transitions20911Mean Field Theory of Critical Behavior22512Continuous Phase Transitions24713Renormalization in One Dimension27914Real Space Renormalization Techniques29115Duality35916Planar Model and Coulomb Systems37717XY Model, Renormalization, and Duality399Index479
