Phase Transitions and Renormalisation Group (Oxford Graduate Texts) 1st Edition by Jean Zinn-Justin (PDF)

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This work tries to provide an elementary introduction to the notions of continuum limit and universality in statistical systems with a large number of degrees of freedom. The existence of a continuum limit requires the appearance of correlations at large distance, a situation that is encountered in second order phase transitions, near the critical temperature. In this context, we will emphasize the role of gaussian distributions and their relations with the mean field approximation and Landau’s theory of critical phenomena. We will show that quasi-gaussian or mean-field approximations cannot describe correctly phase transitions in three space dimensions. We will assign this difficulty to the coupling of very different physical length scales, even though the systems we will consider have only local, that is, short range interactions. To analyze the unusual situation, a new concept is required: the renormalization group, whose fixed points allow understanding the universality of physical properties at large distance beyond mean-field theory. In the continuum limit, critical phenomena can be described by quantum field theories. In this framework, the renormalization group is directly related to the renormalization process, that is, the necessity to cancel the infinities that arise in straightforward formulations of the theory. We thus discuss the renormalization group in the context of various relevant field theories. This leads to proofs of universality and to efficient tools for calculating universal quantities in a perturbative framework. Finally, we construct a general functional renormalization group, which can be used when perturbative methods are inadequate.

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⭐Zinn Justin’s RG book is the most mathemetically lucid treatment of Field Theoretic techniques applied to Statistical Problems I’ve read so far. Instead of sweeping things under the rug, he clearly takes his time to define the mathematics before going on to make physical interpretations. Because it is so thorough in its treatment, some steps in the calculations are (justifiably) skipped to keep the presentation slim, but nothing too difficult to reproduce for a careful reader.For example, read his section on Legendre Transforms and and 1P-I generating functions: you’ll clearly see he warns us when the Legendre transform is not invertible (hint! phase transitions), treats the 1 variable case first, then the many spin case 2nd.Another example of the thoroughness, look at the treatment of path integrals. While not a book specializing on path integrals, he clearly treats both the euclidean and real time path integrals, their relationship with brownian motion, in the first few chapters. After reading this section, you will feel you truly have mastered path integrals, by having a unifying treatment for both stat mech, QFT and stochastic processes!This book is for people who are serious about truly mastering the Renormalization Group and Statistical Physics. Not for the faint hearted, but you get out a lot of both mathematics knowledge and physics knowledge by studying carefully what Zinn Justin has to say.

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