Physics of Critical Fluctuations

Building on Wilson's renormalization group, the authors have developed a unified approach that not only reproduces known results but also yields new results.

A systematic exposition of the contemporary theory of phase transitions, the book includes detailed discussions of phenomena in Heisenberg magnets, granular super-conducting alloys, anisotropic systems of dipoles, and liquid-vapor transitions.

Suitable for advanced undergraduates as well as graduate students in physics, the text assumes some knowledge of statistical mechanics, but is otherwise self-contained.