000			01549 a2200193 4500
020			_a9781107150256
040			_cIIT Kanpur
041			_aeng
082			_a530.474 _bC767q2
100			_aContinentino, Mucio
245			_aQuantum scaling in many-body systems _ban approach to quantum phase transitions _cMucio Continentino
250			_a2nd ed
260			_bCambridge University Press _c2017 _aCambridge
300			_axii, 235p
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.
650			_aPhase transformations
650			_aQuantum theory
942			_cBK
999			_c558379 _d558379