参考学习资料 化工 [Mehran_Kardar]_Statistical_Physics_of_Fields(2007).pdf

StatisticalPhysicsofFields

Whilemanyscientistsarefamiliarwithfractals,fewerarecognizantofthe

conceptsofscale-invarianceanduniversalitywhichunderlietheubiquityof

suchfascinatingshapes.Theseinherentpropertiesemergefromthecollective

behaviorofsimplefundamentalconstituents.Theinitialchapterssmoothly

connecttheparticulateperspectivedevelopedinthecompanionvolume,

StatisticalPhysicsofParticles,tothecoarsegrainedstatisticalfieldsstudied

inthistextbook.Itcarefullydemonstrateshowsuchtheoriesareconstructed

frombasicprinciplessuchassymmetryandlocality,andstudiedby

innovativemethodsliketherenormalizationgroup.Perturbationtheory,exact

solutions,renormalization,andothertoolsareemployedtodemonstratethe

emergenceofscaleinvarianceanduniversality.Thebookconcludeswith

chaptersrelatedtotheresearchoftheauthoronnon-equilibriumdynamicsof

interfaces,anddirectedpathsinrandommedia.

Coveringthemoreadvancedapplicationsofstatisticalmechanics,this

textbookisidealforadvancedgraduatestudentsinphysics.Itisbasedon

lecturesforacourseinstatisticalphysicstaughtbyProfessorKardarat

MassachusettsInstituteofTechnology(MIT).Thelargenumberofintegrated

problemsintroducethereadertonovelapplicationssuchaspercolationand

roughening.Theselectedsolutionsattheendofthebookareidealfor

self-studyandhoningcalculationmethods.Additionalsolutionsareavailable

tolecturersonapasswordprotectedwebsiteat

/9780521873413.

MehranKardarisProfessorofPhysicsatMIT,wherehehastaughtand

researchedinthefieldofStatisticalPhysicsforthepast20years.Hereceived

hisB.A.inCambridge,andgainedhisPh.D.atMIT.ProfessorKardarhas

heldresearchandvisitingpositionsasajuniorfellowatHarvard,a

GuggenheimfellowatOxford,UCSB,andatBerkeleyasaMillerfellow.

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