Principles of Phase Structures in Particle Physics.
The phase structure of particle physics shows up in matter at extremely high densities and/or temperatures as they were reached in the early universe, shortly after the big bang, or in heavy-ion collisions, as they are performed nowadays in laboratory experiments. In contrast to phase transitions of...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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World Scientific
2006.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface ; 1. Introduction ; 2. General Background from Statistical Physics ; 2.1 Generalities ; 2.1.1 Phase transitions in statistical systems ; 2.1.1.1 First- and second-order transitions in the infinite volume limit ; 2.1.1.2 Landau's free energy
- 2.2 Generating functional n-point correlations and effective potentials 2.3 The molecular-mean field approximation ; 2.3.1 Self-consistent equation of state for a ferromagnet ; 2.3.1.1 Critical exponents in the molecular-mean field approximation
- 2.3.2 Variational estimates for the free energy of a spin system 2.3.3 Molecular-mean field approximation for an N-component scalar field theory in D dimensions ; 2.3.3.1 Solutions of the mean-field equations ; 2.3.3.2 Critical exponents in the symmetric phase
- 2.3.3.3 Critical exponents in the broken phase 2.3.3.4 First-order transitions within the molecular-mean field approximation ; 2.3.3.5 Tricritical behavior ; 2.3.4 Variational estimates for the SU(2) Higgs model ; 2.3.4.1 Solutions of the mean-field equations of the SU(2) Higgs model
- 2.3.5 Improved variational estimates for the SU(2) Higgs model 2.3.6 Summary ; 2.4 Renormalization group ; 2.4.1 Generalities ; 2.4.2 Block-spin transformations ; 2.4.3 Iteration of the block-spin transformation ; 2.4.4 Field renormalization