A Student's Guide to the Ising Model

ISBN-13: 9781009096300 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 193 str.

Walker James S. Walker

Opis

A focused and accessible guide to the Ising model, a mathematical framework used to describe ferromagnetism, with exercises included.

Spis treści

1. The Ising model; 2. Finite Ising systems; 3. Partial summations and effective interactions; 4. Infinite Ising systems in one dimension; 5. The Onsager solution and exact series expansions; 6. The mean-field approach; 7. Position-space renormalization-group techniques; Index.