Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 A few well-known basic results
- 2 Introduction: order parameters, broken symmetries
- 3 Examples of physical situations modelled by the Ising model
- 4 A few results for the Ising model
- 5 High-temperature and low-temperature expansions
- 6 Some geometric problems related to phase transitions
- 7 Phenomenological description of critical behaviour
- 8 Mean field theory
- 9 Beyond the mean field theory
- 10 Introduction to the renormalization group
- 11 Renormalization group for the φ4 theory
- 12 Renormalized theory
- 13 Goldstone modes
- 14 Large n
- Index
9 - Beyond the mean field theory
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2014
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 A few well-known basic results
- 2 Introduction: order parameters, broken symmetries
- 3 Examples of physical situations modelled by the Ising model
- 4 A few results for the Ising model
- 5 High-temperature and low-temperature expansions
- 6 Some geometric problems related to phase transitions
- 7 Phenomenological description of critical behaviour
- 8 Mean field theory
- 9 Beyond the mean field theory
- 10 Introduction to the renormalization group
- 11 Renormalization group for the φ4 theory
- 12 Renormalized theory
- 13 Goldstone modes
- 14 Large n
- Index
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- Introduction to Statistical Field Theory , pp. 95 - 99Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010