Quantum phase transitions /

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Author / Creator:Sachdev, Subir, 1961-
Imprint:Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Description:xiv, 353 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4183143
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ISBN:0521582547
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 335-348) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Introduction
  • 1. Basic concepts
  • 2. The mapping to classical statistical mechanics: single site models
  • 3. Overview
  • Part II. Quantum Ising and Rotor Models
  • 4. The Ising chain in a transverse field
  • 5. Quantum rotor models: large N limit
  • 6. The d = 1, 0 (N greater than or equal to 3) rotor models
  • 7. The d = 2 (N greater than or equal to 3) rotor models
  • 8. Physics close to and above the upper-critical dimension
  • 9. Transport in d = 2
  • Part III\tOther Models.
  • 10. Boston Hubbard model
  • 11. Dilute Fermi and Bose gases
  • 12. Phase transitions of Fermi liquids
  • 13. Heisenberg spins: ferromagnets and antiferromagnets
  • 14. Spin chains: bosonization
  • 15. Magnetic ordering transitions of disordered systems
  • 16. Quantum spin glasses