Quantum Field Theory and Critical Phenomena: v.85 (International Series of Monographs on Physics) - Hardcover

Zinn-Justin, Jean

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 019851882X ISBN 13: 9780198518822

Publisher: Clarendon Press, 1996

Synopsis

Over the last twenty years quantum field theory has become not only the framework for the discussion of all fundamental interactions except gravity, but also for the understanding of second-order phase transitions in statistical mechanics. This advanced text is based on graduate courses and summer schools given by the author over a number of years. It approaches the subject in terms of path and functional intergrals, adopting a Euclidean metric and using the language of partition and correlation functions. Renormalization and the renormalization group are examined, as are critical phenomena and the role of instantons. Changes for this edition 1. Extensive revision to eliminate a few bugs that had survived the second edition and (mainly) to improve the pedagogical presentation, as a result of experience gathered by lecturing. 2. Additional new topics; holomorphic or coherent state path integral; functional integral and representation of the field theory S-matrix in the holomorphic formalis; non-relativistic limit of massive quantization and brief discussion of non-renormalization of quantum gravity based on Einstein action. 3. This book is intended for theoretical particle physicists and statistical physicists at graduate level and above.

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Review

Review from previous edition:

This excellent book offers a systematic presentation of the quantum field theory approach in describing all fundamental interactions in particle physics and the second order phase transition in statistical mechanics (Giuseppe Mussardo, Mathematical Reviews)

...a remarkable achievement... (I. D. Lawrie, Contemporary Physics)

This excellent book is surely destined to become a valuable and standard work of reference. (Lewis Ryder, Times Higher Educational Supplement)

About the Author

Prof Jean Zinn-Justin CEA/Saclay, Service de Physique Théorique, Gif-sur-Yvette, France 13, Domaine de Seignelay, F92290 Chatenay-Malabry (home address) tel. home: 33146600200, prof: 33169087468 fax: home idem fax prof: 33169088120 Email: zinn@spht.saclay.cea.fr French, born 10-07-1943, Berlin (Germany)

Edition details

• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 019851882X
• ISBN 13: 9780198518822
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 1030