RENORMALIZATION-GROUP THEORY - ITS BASIS AND FORMULATION IN STATISTICAL PHYSICS

Authors
FISHER ME
Citation
Me. Fisher, RENORMALIZATION-GROUP THEORY - ITS BASIS AND FORMULATION IN STATISTICAL PHYSICS, Reviews of modern physics, 70(2), 1998, pp. 653-681
Citations number
124
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
Reviews of modern physics → ACNP
ISSN journal
00346861
Volume
70
Issue
2
Year of publication
1998
Pages
653 - 681
Database
ISI
SICI code
0034-6861(1998)70:2<653:RT-IBA>2.0.ZU;2-M
Abstract
The nature and origins of renormalization group ideas in statistical p hysics and condensed matter theory are recounted informally, emphasizi ng those features of prime importance in these areas of science in con tradistinction to quantum field theory, in particular: critical expone nts and scaling, relevance, irrelevance and marginality, universality, and Wilson's crucial concept of flows and fixed points in a large spa ce of Hamiltonians.