Disorder and Competition in Soluble Lattice Models: 9 - Rilegato

Wreszinski, Walter F.; Salinas, Silvio R. A.

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 9810214162 ISBN 13: 9789810214166

Casa editrice: World Scientific Pub Co Inc, 1993

Riassunto

At present, existing literature on this subject matter can only be said to relate in minor areas to this work. Important concepts in statistical mechanics, such as frustration, localization, Lifshitz and Griffiths singularities, multicritical points, modulated phases, superselection sectors, spontaneous symmetry breaking and the Haldane phase, strange attractors and the Hausdorff dimension, and many others, are illustrated by exactly soluble lattice models. There are examples of simple lattice models which are shown to give rise to spectacular phase diagrams, with multicritical points and sequences of modulated phases. The models are chosen to enable a concise exposition as well as a connection with real physical systems (as dilute antiferromagnets, spin glasses and modulated magnets). A brief introduction to the properties of dynamical systems, an overview of conformal invariance and the Bethe Ansatz and a discussion of some general methods of statistical mechanics related to spontaneous symmetry breaking, are included in the appendices. A number of exercises are included in the text to help the comprehension of the most representative issues.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: World Scientific Pub Co Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 1993
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 9810214162
• ISBN 13: 9789810214166
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 248
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile