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- From: sichase@csa2.lbl.gov (SCOTT I CHASE)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: Renormalization Group
- Date: 31 Jul 92 18:55:46 GMT
- Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory - Berkeley, CA, USA
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- In article <1992Jul30.150435@ece.arizona.edu>, nadar@ece.arizona.edu (Mariappan S. Nadar) writes...
-
- > I was wondering if someone could provide me with references to
- >Renormalization Group theory in Statistical Physics.
- >
- > My knowledge in Physics is limited to the undergraduate curriculum
- >in Engineering.
-
- One excellent reference (which must be understandable because I read
- it when I was an undergraduate myself) is "Renormalization Group
- Theory" by Pfleuty and Tolouse. I may not have gotten the title exactly
- right or the spelling of the author's names perfectly correct. But that
- should be enough for you to track it down.
-
- Although position-space renormalization group analysis is actually very
- easy to understand, you need to have at least some understanding of
- phase transitions and critical phenomena to understand the point of
- using PSRG in the first place. I recommend Stanley's "Phase Transitions
- and Critical Phenomena".
-
- -Scott
- --------------------
- Scott I. Chase "The question seems to be of such a character
- SICHASE@CSA2.LBL.GOV that if I should come to life after my death
- and some mathematician were to tell me that it
- had been definitely settled, I think I would
- immediately drop dead again." - Vandiver
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