TY  - BOOK
AU  - Continentino, Mucio
TI  - Quantum scaling in many-body systems: an approach to quantum phase transitions 
SN  - 9781107150256
U1  - 530.474 CON-M 
PY  - 2017///
CY  - India
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Phase transformations (Statistical physics)
KW  - Quantum theory
N1  - Quantum phase transitions are strongly relevant in a number of fields, ranging from condensed matter to cold atom physics and quantum field theory. This book, now in its second edition, approaches the problem of quantum phase transitions from a new and unifying perspective. Topics addressed include the concepts of scale and time invariance and their significance for quantum criticality, as well as brand new chapters on superfluid and superconductor quantum critical points, and quantum first order transitions. The renormalisation group in real and momentum space is also established as the proper language to describe the behaviour of systems close to a quantum phase transition. These phenomena introduce a number of theoretical challenges which are of major importance for driving new experiments. Being strongly motivated and oriented towards understanding experimental results, this is an excellent text for graduates, as well as theorists, experimentalists and those with an interest in quantum criticality.

Provides a new perspective on a range of topics
An experimental focus means it is suitable for a wide audience, from graduates to experimentalists
Includes several new topics, such as topological quantum phase transitions, which have never been approached in books from the proposed perspective
ER  -