Book: Statistical Field Theory: Volume 1, From Brownian Motion to Renormalization and Lattice Gauge Theory
Author: Claude Itzykson, Jean-Michel Drouffe
Pages: 432
Format: Djvu
Language: English
ISBN10: 0521340586
A comprehensive and timely survey of the application of the methods of quantum field theory to statistical physics, a very active and fruitful area of modern research, is provided in two volumes. The first volume provides a pedagogical introduction to the subject, discussing Brownian motion, its anticommutative counterpart in the guise of Onsager's solution to the two-dimensional Ising model, the mean field or Landau approximation, scaling ideas exemplified by the Kosterlitz-Thouless theory for the XY transition, the continuous renormalization group applied to the standard phi-to-the-fourth theory (the simplest typical case) and lattice gauge theory as a pathway to the understanding of quark confinement in quantum chromodynamics.
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