Quantum Phase Transitions.

Updated second edition with several new chapters, for graduates and researchers in condensed matter physics and particle and string theory.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Sachdev, Subir
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Leiden : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Edition:	2nd ed.
Subjects:	Phase transformations (Statistical physics) Quantum theory. Quantum theory Fase-overgangen. Kwantummechanica. Statistische mechanica.
Online Access:	Click for online access

Table of Contents:

Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; From the Preface to the first edition; Preface to the second edition; Acknowledgments; Acknowledgments; Part I: Introduction; 1 Basic concepts; 2 Overview; Part II: A first course; 3 Classical phase transitions; 4 The renormalization group; 5 The quantum Ising model; 6 The quantum rotor model; 7 Correlations, susceptibilities, and the quantum critical point; 8 Broken symmetries; 9 Boson Hubbard model; Part III: Nonzero temperatures; 10 The Ising chain in a transverse field; 11 Quantum rotor models: large-N limit.
12 The d = 1, O(N geq 3) rotor models13 The d = 2, O(N geq 3) rotor models; 14 Physics close to and above the upper-critical dimension; 15 Transport in d = 2; Part IV: Other models; 16 Dilute Fermi and Bose gases; 17 Phase transitions of Dirac fermions; 18 Fermi liquids, and their phase transitions; 19 Heisenberg spins: ferromagnets and antiferromagnets; 20 Spin chains: bosonization; 21 Magnetic ordering transitions of disordered systems; 22 Quantum spin glasses; References; Index.

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