Introduction to Conformal Invariance and Its Applications to Critical Phenomena
The history of critical phenomena goes back to the year 1869 when Andrews discovered the critical point of carbon dioxide, located at about 31°C and 73 atmospheres pressure. In the neighborhood ofthis point the carbon dioxide was observed to become opalescent, that is, light is strongly scattered. T...
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Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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Berlin, Heidelberg
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
1993, 1993
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Edition: | 1st ed. 1993 |
Series: | Lecture Notes in Physics Monographs
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Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Critical Phenomena: a Reminder
- Conformal Invariance and the Stress-Energy Tensor
- Finite Size Scaling
- Representation Theory of the Virasoro Algebra
- Operator Algebra and Correlation Functions
- The Ising Model Correlation Functions
- Coulomb Gas Realization
- The Hamiltonian Limit and Universality
- Numerical Techniques
- Conformal Invariance in the Ising Quantum Chain
- Modular Invariance
- Further Developments and Applications
- Conformal Perturbation Theory
- The Vicinity of the Critical Point
- Surface Critical Phenomena
- Outlook: Beyond the Conformal Group