A Primer to the Theory of Critical Phenomena

A Primer to the Theory of Critical Phenomena provides scientists in academia and industry, as well as graduate students in physics, chemistry, and geochemistry with the scientific fundamentals of critical phenomena and phase transitions. The book helps readers broaden their understanding of a field that has developed tremendously over the last forty years. The book also makes a great resource for graduate level instructors at universities.

Provides a thorough and accessible treatment of the fundamentals of critical phenomenaOffers an in-depth exposition on renormalization and field theory techniquesIncludes experimental observations of critical effectsIncludes live examples illustrating the applications of the theoretical material

1. Introduction: Classical Phases and Critical Points 2. The Ising Model and Its Basic Characteristics in the Mean Field Approximation 3. General Mean Field Approach 4. The Landau Theory of Phase Transitions: General concept and its microscopic relation to mean eld theory 5. More General Considerations Concerning Mean Field Theory: Stratonovich-Hubbard transformation? 6. Generalities Relating to the Study of Critical Phenomena 7. Failure of Mean Field Theory and Scaling Methods 8. Kadanoff Scaling 9. The Renormalization Group Operations 10. Additional Interrelations Between Critical Exponents 11. Renormalization Group Operations 12. Detection of Fixed Points 13. The Standard Gaussian Model 14. Higher Order Expansion 15. The Ginzburg-Landau Model