Quantum Phase Transitions

✍ Scribed by Subir Sachdev

• Book ID: 127436788
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 5 MB
• Category: Library
• ISBN: 0521004543

✦ Synopsis

Quantum Phase Transitions details the fundamental changes that can occur in the macroscopic nature of matter at zero temperature due to small variations in a given external parameter. The author develops the theory of quantum phase transitions in the simplest possible class of nondisordered, interacting systems - the quantum Ising and rotor models. He pays particular attention to their non-zero temperature dynamic and transport properties in the vicinity of the quantum critical point. Throughout, experimental results are interwoven with theoretical models, and well over 500 references are included.