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COHERENT ANOMALY METHOD
Mean Field, Fluctuations and Systematics
by M Suzuki et al. (University of Tokyo)
This book presents a systematic and coherent approach to phase transitions and critical phenomena, namely the coherent-anomaly method (CAM theory) based on cluster mean-field approximations. The first part gives a brief review of the CAM theory and the second part a collection of reprints covering the CAM basic calculations, the Blume–Emery–Griffiths model, the extended Baxter model, the quantum Heisenberg model, zero-temperature phase transitions, the KT-transition, spin glasses, the self-avoiding walk, contact processes, branching processes, the gas–liquid transition and even non-equilibrium phase transitions.
Contents:
- Introduction to Phase Transitions
- Basic Scheme of the CAM Theory
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Extensions of Mean-Field Approximations
- Non-Universal Critical Phenomena
- Spin Glasses
- CAM in Quantum Spin Systems
- Percolation, SAW and DLA
- Stochastic Processes
Readership: Graduate students in materials science, mathematical physics,
statistical mechanics and statistical physics.
"The student can learn a great deal not only from the 90-page review by Suzuki himself, but also by studying the original reprinted sources."
| Journal of Statistical Physics |
| 536pp |
Pub. date: Sept 1995 |
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