Quantum field theory and condensed matter : an introduction / Ramamurti Shankar (Yale University, Connecticut).
By: Shankar, Ramamurti [author.].
Material type: TextSeries: 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: 530.14/3Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Book | Chennai Mathematical Institute General Stacks | 530.143 SHA (Browse shelf) | Available | 10594 |
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530.143 NAI Topics in quantum field theory / | 530.143 RUB Classical theory of gauge fields / | 530.143 SCH Quantum field theory and the standard model / | 530.143 SHA Quantum field theory and condensed matter : an introduction / | 530.143 SHI Advanced topics in quantum field theory : a lecture course / | 530.143 SIV Introductory Quantum Field Theory concepts and applications. | 530.143 VEL Diagrammatica : the path to Feynman rules / |
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.