Introduction to Conformal Invariance and Its Applications to Critical Phenomena (Record no. 31935)
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| ISBN | 9783540475750 |
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| Classification number | 536.7 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Christe, P. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Introduction to Conformal Invariance and Its Applications to Critical Phenomena |
| Statement of responsibility, etc | by P. Christe, M. Henkel. |
| 260 #1 - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | Berlin, Heidelberg : |
| Name of publisher | Springer Berlin Heidelberg, |
| Year of publication | 1993. |
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| Number of Pages | XV, 260 p. |
| Other physical details | online resource. |
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| Series statement | Lecture Notes in Physics Monographs, |
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| Formatted contents note | Critical Phenomena: a Reminder -- Conformal Invariance and the Stress-Energy Tensor -- Finite Size Scaling -- Representation Theory of the Virasoro Algebra -- Operator Algebra and Correlation Functions -- The Ising Model Correlation Functions -- Coulomb Gas Realization -- The Hamiltonian Limit and Universality -- Numerical Techniques -- Conformal Invariance in the Ising Quantum Chain -- Modular Invariance -- Further Developments and Applications -- Conformal Perturbation Theory -- The Vicinity of the Critical Point -- Surface Critical Phenomena -- Outlook: Beyond the Conformal Group. |
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| Summary, etc | The history of critical phenomena goes back to the year 1869 when Andrews discovered the critical point of carbon dioxide, located at about 31°C and 73 atmospheres pressure. In the neighborhood ofthis point the carbon dioxide was observed to become opalescent, that is, light is strongly scattered. This is nowadays interpreted as comingfrom the strong fluctuations of the system close to the critical point. Subsequently, a wide varietyofphysicalsystems were realized to display critical points as well. Ofparticular importance was the observation of a critical point in ferromagnetic iron by Curie. Further examples include multicomponent fluids and alloys, superfluids, superconductors, polymers and may even extend to the quark-gluon plasmaand the early universe as a whole. Early theoretical investigationstried to reduce the problem to a very small number of degrees of freedom, such as the van der Waals equation and mean field approximations and culminating in Landau's general theory of critical phenomena. In a dramatic development, Onsager's exact solutionofthe two-dimensional Ising model made clear the important role of the critical fluctuations. Their role was taken into account in the subsequent developments leading to the scaling theories of critical phenomena and the renormalization group. These developements have achieved a precise description of the close neighborhood of the critical point and results are often in good agreement with experiments. In contrast to the general understanding a century ago, the presence of fluctuations on all length scales at a critical point is today emphasized. |
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| Topical Term | Physics. |
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| Topical Term | Mathematical physics. |
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| Topical Term | Statistical physics. |
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| Topical Term | Thermodynamics. |
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| Topical Term | Crystals. |
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| Topical Term | Physics. |
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| Topical Term | Thermodynamics. |
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| Topical Term | Statistical Physics. |
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| Topical Term | Mathematical Methods in Physics. |
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| Topical Term | Numerical and Computational Methods. |
| 650 24 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Partially Ordered Systems, Glasses, Quasicrystals. |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Henkel, M. |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-47575-0 |
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