Applications of Field Theory to Statistical Mechanics
Proceedings of the Sitges Conference on Statistical Mechanics Sitges, Barcelona/Spain, June 10-15, 1984
Published on 1. January 1985
Book
Paperback/Softback
VIII, 355 pages
978-3-540-13911-9 (ISBN)
Description
Prologue A functional perturbative approach to the classical statistical mechanics.- The structure and statistical mechanics of glass.- The statistical mechanics of surfaces.- Surface effects in phase transitions.- On the Ising spin glass I. Mean field.- On the Ising spin glass II. Fluctuations.- The wetting transition.- Grassmann variables and supersymmetry in the theory of disordered systems.- Rigorous studies of critical behavior.- Anderson transition and nonlinear ?-model.- Non-perturbative renormalisation in field theory.- Stochastlc quantization: Regularization and renormalization.- Self avoiding random walk and the renormalisation group.- Field theory of the metal-insulator transitions in restricted symmetries.- Surface tension and supercooling in solidification theory.- Order and frustration on a random topography.- On the equation ?? = ?2sinh ? and its applications.- The uses of Zeta-function regularization in the dielectric gauge theory of quark confinement.- One dimensional Heisenberg Ferromagnet equation and the Painleve test.- Nonlinear crystal growth near the roughening-transition.- The dynamics of bose-einstein condensation.- Decay properties of correlations in massless models : The method of correlation inequalities.- Nonasymptotic critical phenomena.- Large n expansions for paramagnetic to helical phase transitions.- The maximal chain model- a one dimensional system with a first-order phase transition.- Directed lattice animals and the Yang-Lee-Edge singularity.- Real space renormalization group treatment of superradiance.- Kondo effect in a one dimensional interacting electron system.- Time-dependent nucleation in systems with conserved order parameter.- Mastersymmetries for completely integrable systems in statistical mechanics.- Scalingapproach to self-avoiding random walks and surfaces.- Long-time dynamics of coupled non-linear oscillators.- Nonlinear quantum fluctuation-dissipation relations.- Effects of surface exchange anisotropies on critical and multicritical behavior at surfaces.- Dirichlet forms and schrodinger operators.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin
Germany
Publishing group
Springer Berlin
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Research
Illustrations
3 s/w Abbildungen
VIII, 355 p. 3 illus.
Dimensions
Height: 244 mm
Width: 170 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
635 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-540-13911-9 (9783540139119)
DOI
10.1007/3-540-13911-7
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Content
Prologue A functional perturbative approach to the classical statistical mechanics.- The structure and statistical mechanics of glass.- The statistical mechanics of surfaces.- Surface effects in phase transitions.- On the Ising spin glass I. Mean field.- On the Ising spin glass II. Fluctuations.- The wetting transition.- Grassmann variables and supersymmetry in the theory of disordered systems.- Rigorous studies of critical behavior.- Anderson transition and nonlinear ?-model.- Non-perturbative renormalisation in field theory.- Stochastlc quantization: Regularization and renormalization.- Self avoiding random walk and the renormalisation group.- Field theory of the metal-insulator transitions in restricted symmetries.- Surface tension and supercooling in solidification theory.- Order and frustration on a random topography.- On the equation ?? = ?2sinh ? and its applications.- The uses of Zeta-function regularization in the dielectric gauge theory of quark confinement.- One dimensional Heisenberg Ferromagnet equation and the Painleve test.- Nonlinear crystal growth near the roughening-transition.- The dynamics of bose-einstein condensation.- Decay properties of correlations in massless models : The method of correlation inequalities.- Nonasymptotic critical phenomena.- Large n expansions for paramagnetic to helical phase transitions.- The maximal chain model- a one dimensional system with a first-order phase transition.- Directed lattice animals and the Yang-Lee-Edge singularity.- Real space renormalization group treatment of superradiance.- Kondo effect in a one dimensional interacting electron system.- Time-dependent nucleation in systems with conserved order parameter.- Mastersymmetries for completely integrable systems in statistical mechanics.- Scalingapproach to self-avoiding random walks and surfaces.- Long-time dynamics of coupled non-linear oscillators.- Nonlinear quantum fluctuation-dissipation relations.- Effects of surface exchange anisotropies on critical and multicritical behavior at surfaces.- Dirichlet forms and schrodinger operators.