Book of Donmon Teith

Over the past few years, finite-size scaling has become an increasingly important tool in studies of critical systems. This is partly due to an increased unders

The theory of Finite Size Scaling describes a build-up of the bulk properties when a small system is increased in size. This description is particularly importa

The aim of this book is to familiarise the reader with the rich collection of ideas, methods and results available in the theory of critical phenomena in system

This text provides a thoroughly modern graduate-level introduction to the theory of critical behaviour. It begins with a brief review of phase transitions in si

During a century, from the Van der Waals mean field description (1874) of gases to the introduction of renormalization group (RG techniques 1970), thermodynamic