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Quantum field theory and condensed matter : an introduction / Ramamurti Shankar (Yale University, Connecticut).

By: Shankar, Ramamurti [author.].
Material type: TextTextSeries: Cambridge monographs on mathematical physics: Publisher: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Description: xiv, 439 pages; PDS 59.99 25 cms.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780521592109; 0521592100.Subject(s): Quantum field theory | Condensed matterDDC classification: 530.14/3
Contents:
Thermodynamics and statistical mechanics review -- Ising model in d = 0 and d = 1 -- Statistical to quantum mechanics -- Quantum to statistical mechanics -- Feynman path integral -- Coherent state path integrals for spins, bosons and fermions -- The two-dimensional Ising model -- Exact solution of the two-dimensional Ising model -- Majorana fermions -- Gauge theories -- The renormalization group -- Critical phenomena: the puzzle and resolution -- RG for the [phi]4 model -- Two views of renormalization -- RG for non-relativistic fermions: I -- RG for non-relativistic fermions: II -- Bosonization I: the fermion-boson dictionary -- Bosonization II: selected applications -- Duality and triality -- Techniques for the QHE.
List(s) this item appears in: 2019-03-04
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Book Chennai Mathematical Institute
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Thermodynamics and statistical mechanics review -- Ising model in d = 0 and d = 1 -- Statistical to quantum mechanics -- Quantum to statistical mechanics -- Feynman path integral -- Coherent state path integrals for spins, bosons and fermions -- The two-dimensional Ising model -- Exact solution of the two-dimensional Ising model -- Majorana fermions -- Gauge theories -- The renormalization group -- Critical phenomena: the puzzle and resolution -- RG for the [phi]4 model -- Two views of renormalization -- RG for non-relativistic fermions: I -- RG for non-relativistic fermions: II -- Bosonization I: the fermion-boson dictionary -- Bosonization II: selected applications -- Duality and triality -- Techniques for the QHE.