Statistical Physics: Statics, Dynamics and Renormalization

Statistical Physics: Statics, Dynamics and Renormalization
ISBN-10
9810237642
ISBN-13
9789810237646
Series
Statistical Physics
Category
Science
Pages
483
Language
English
Published
2000
Publisher
World Scientific
Author
Leo P. Kadanoff

Description

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.

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