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Author:   David A. Lavis
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2015
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 4.10cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   1.223kg
ISBN:  

9789402405040

ISBN 10:   9402405046
Pages:   793
Publication Date:   09 October 2016
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Part I Thermodynamics, Statistical Mechanical Models and Phase Transitions.- Introduction.- Thermodynamics.- Statistical Mechanics.- A Survey of Models.- Phase Transitions and Scaling Theory.- Part II Classical Approximation Methods.- Phenomenological Theory and Landau Expansions.- Classical Methods.- The Van der Waals Equation.- Landau Expansions with One Order Parameter.- Landau Expansions with Two Order Parameter.- Landau Theory for a Tricritical Point.- Landau_Ginzburg Theory.- Mean-Field Theory.- Cluster-Variation Methods.- Part III Exact Results.- Introduction.- Algebraic Methods.- Transformation Methods.- Edge-Decorated Ising Models.- 11 Transfer Matrices: Incipient Phase Transitions.- Transfer Matrices: Exactly Solved Models.- Dimer Models.- Part IV Series and Renormalization Group Methods.- Introduction.- Series Expansions.- Real-Space Renormalization Group Theory.- A Appendices.- References and Author Index.

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