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This book provides a challenging and stimulating introduction to the contemporary topics of complexity and criticality, and explores their common basis of scale invariance, a central unifying theme of the book. Criticality refers to the behaviour of extended systems at a phase transition where scale invariance prevails. The many constituent microscopic parts bringing about macroscopic phenomena that cannot be understood by considering a single part alone. The phenomenology of phase transitions is introduced by considering percolation, a simple model with a purely geometrical phase transition, thus enabling the reader to become intuitively familiar with concepts such as scale invariance and renormalisation. The Ising model is then introduced, which captures a thermodynamic phase transition from a disordered to an ordered system as the temperature is lowered in zero external field. By emphasising analogies between percolation and the Ising model, the reader's intuition of phase transiti
Autorius: | Kim Christensen & Nicholas R Moloney |
Leidėjas: | ICP |
Išleidimo metai: | 2005 |
Knygos puslapių skaičius: | 410 |
ISBN-10: | 1860945171 |
ISBN-13: | 9781860945175 |
Formatas: | 229 x 152 x 23 mm. Knyga minkštu viršeliu |
Kalba: | Anglų |
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