Renormalization methods: A guide for beginners - Couverture rigide

McComb, W-D

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0198506945 ISBN 13 : 9780198506942

Editeur : Oxford University Press, 2003

Synopsis

This is a unique book, occupying a gap between final-year undergraduate texts on critical phenomena and advanced texts on quantum field theory. It covers a range of renormalization methods with a clear physical interpretation (and motivation), including mean-field theories and high-temperature and low-density expansions. It then proceeds by easy steps to the famous epsilon-expansion, ending up with the first-order corrections to critical exponents beyond mean-field theory. Nowadays there is widespread interest in applications of renormalization methods to various topics ranging over soft condensed matter, engineering dynamics, traffic queueing and fluctuations in the stock market. Hence macroscopic systems are also included, with particular emphasis on the archetypal problem of fluid turbulence. The book is unique in making this material accessible to readers other than theoretical physicists, as it requires only the basic physics and mathematics which should be known to most scientists, engineers and mathematicians.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

W D. McComb is Professor of Statistical Physics at the University of Edinburgh, UK.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0198506945
• ISBN 13: 9780198506942
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 348
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible