Statistical Physics: Statics, Dynamics and Renormalization

by Kadanoff Leo P

The material presented in this invaluable textbook has been tested in two courses. One of these is a graduate-level survey of statistical physics; the other, a rather personal perspective on critical behavior. Thus, this book defines a progression starting at the book-learning part of graduate education and ending in the midst of topics at the research level. To supplement the research-level side the book includes some research papers. Several of these are classics in the field, including a suite of six works on self-organized criticality and complexity, a pair on diffusion-limited aggregation, some papers on correlations near critical points, a few of the basic sources on the development of the real-space renormalization group, and several papers on magnetic behavior in a plain geometry. In addition, the author has included a few of his own papers.

Genres: Physics

500 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 2000

Reviews

[Rachele · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good intro grad level stat. physics book. Very Ising oriented. Good transition into research type topics. Includes reprints of relevent articles.