Statistical Field Theory: From Brownian Motion to Renormalization and Lattice Gauge Theory (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521408059)

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.

Author: Claude Itzykson, Jean-Michel Drouffe
ISBN-10: 0521408059
ISBN-13: 9780521408059
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 03/29/1991
Pages: 428
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 9.04h x 6.36w x 1.07d