03020cam a22003131i 4500 16555813 EG-ScBUE 20250527091448.0 101129s2011 enka f b 001 0 eng d 9780521514682 (hardback) EG-ScBUE eng rda EG-ScBUE EG-ScBUE 530.474 22 SAC Sachdev, Subir, 1961- 28961 author. Quantum phase transitions / Subir Sachdev, Harvard University. Second edition. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011. xviii, 501 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm rdacontent text txt unmediated rdamedia n volume nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. Machine generated contents note: Part I. Introduction: 1. Basic concepts; 2. Overview; Part II. A First Course: 3. Classical phase transitions; 4. The renormalization group; 5. The quantum Ising model; 6. The quantum rotor model; 7. Correlations, susceptibilities, and the quantum critical point; 8. Broken symmetries; 9. Boson Hubbard model; Part III. Non-zero Temperatures: 10. The Ising chain in a transverse field; 11. Quantum rotor models: large-N limit; 12. The d = 1, O(N �> 3) rotor models; 13. The d = 2, O(N �> 3) rotor models; 14. Physics close to and above the upper-critical dimension; 15. Transport in d = 2; Part IV. Other Models: 16. Dilute Fermi and Bose gases; 17. Phase transitions of Dirac fermions; 18. Fermi liquids, and their phase transitions; 19. Heisenberg spins: ferromagnets and antiferromagnets; 20. Spin chains: bosonization; 21. Magnetic ordering transitions of disordered systems; 22. Quantum spin glasses; References; Index. "Describing the physical properties of quantum materials near critical points with long-range many-body quantum entanglement, this book introduces readers to the basic theory of quantum phases, their phase transitions and their observable properties. This second edition begins with a new section suitable for an introductory course on quantum phase transitions, assuming no prior knowledge of quantum field theory. It also contains several new chapters to cover important recent advances, such as the Fermi gas near unitarity, Dirac fermions, Fermi liquids and their phase transitions, quantum magnetism, and solvable models obtained from string theory. After introducing the basic theory, it moves on to a detailed description of the canonical quantum-critical phase diagram at non-zero temperatures. Finally, a variety of more complex models are explored. This book is ideal for graduate students and researchers in condensed matter physics and particle and string theory"-- Phase transformations (Statistical physics) 28962 BUEsh Quantum theory. 28963 BUEsh Reading book Cover image http://assets.cambridge.org/97805215/14682/cover/9780521514682.jpg ddc BB 16478 16478 0 0 ddc 0 0 Alahram MAIN MAIN 1ST 2012-02-16 purchase 545.00 681 0 530.474 SAC 000026130 2025-07-15 00:00:00 2012-02-16 BB