Renormalization Methods : A Guide For Beginners

ISBN-13: 9780198506942 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 336 str.

William David McComb; W. D. McComb

Opis

This book is unique in occupying a gap between standard undergraduate texts and more advanced texts on quantum field theory. It covers a range of renormalization methods with a clear physical interpretation (and motivation), including meanfield theories and high-temperature and low-density expansions. It then proceeds by easy steps to the famous epsilon-expansion, ending up with the first-order corrections to critical exponents beyond mean-field theory. Nowadays, there is widespread interest in applications of renormalization methods to various topics ranging over soft condensed matter, engineering dynamics, traffic queueing and fluctuations in the stock market. Hence macroscopic systems are also included, with particular emphasis on the archetypal problem of fluid turbulence. The book is also unique in making this material accessible to readers other than theoretical physicists, as it requires only the basic physics and mathematics which should be known to most scientists, engineers and mathematicians.

Recenzje

Requiring only the basic physics and mathematics known to most scientists and engineers, the material should be accessible to readers other then theoretical physicists.

O autorze

William David McComb is currently Professor of Statistical Physics at the University of Edinburgh. He was Senior Scientific Officer of the Theoretical Physics Division, Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Harwell in the years 1969-71.