000			01884nam a22001817a 4500
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008			200612b2017 ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d
020			_a9781107150256
082			_a530.474 CON-M
100			_aContinentino, Mucio
245			_aQuantum scaling in many-body systems : _ban approach to quantum phase transitions / _cMucio Continentino
250			_a2nd ed.,
260			_aIndia _bCambridge University Press _c2017
300			_a235 p.
365			_aGBP _b57.99.
500			_aQuantum 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
650			_aPhase transformations (Statistical physics)
650			_aQuantum theory