Renormalization Methods : A Guide for Beginners
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This book is unique in occupying a gap between standard undergraduate texts and more advanced texts on quantum field theory. It covers a range of renormalization methods with a clear physical interpretation (and motivation), including meanfield theories and high-temperature and low-density
expansions. It then proceeds by easy steps to the famous epsilon-expansion, ending up with the first-order corrections to critical exponents beyond mean-field theory. Nowadays, there is widespread interest in applications of renormalization methods to various topics ranging over soft condensed
matter, engineering dynamics, traffic queueing and fluctuations in the stock market. Hence macroscopic systems are also included, with particular emphasis on the archetypal problem of fluid turbulence. The book is also unique in making this material accessible to readers other than theoretical
physicists, as it requires only the basic physics and mathematics which should be known to most scientists, engineers and mathematicians.
Renormalization Methods: A Guide for Beginners ,W. D. McComb,Oxford University Press, USA,0198506945,General,Mathematical Physics,Physics,Quantum Theory,Renormalization (Physics),Science,Science/Mathematics,Waves & Wave Mechanics,Mathematics | Applied Mathematics,Quantum physics (quantum mechanics),Science / Quantum Theory,Statistical physics,Theoretical methods
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