Statistical Physics of Fields
by Mehran Kardar
Publisher: MIT 2014
ISBN/ASIN: 052187341X
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Topics: The hydrodynamic limit and classical field theories; Phase transitions and broken symmetries: universality, correlation functions, and scaling theory; The renormalization approach to collective phenomena; Dynamic critical behavior; Random systems.
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