| Disorder and Competition in Soluble Lattice Models Contributor(s): Wreszinski, Walter F. (Author), Salinas, Silvio R. a. (Author) |
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ISBN: 9810214162 ISBN-13: 9789810214166 Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company OUR PRICE: $69.35 Product Type: Hardcover Published: August 1993 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Science | Nanoscience - Science | Physics - Condensed Matter |
| Dewey: 530.411 |
| LCCN: 94211387 |
| Series: Advances in Statistical Mechanics |
| Physical Information: 0.72" H x 6.36" W x 8.88" (1.14 lbs) 248 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |