Preface |
Ordered Phases / 1: |
Overview / 1.1: |
Order Parameters / 1.2: |
Symmetry Breaking / 1.3: |
Ferromagnetic Case / 1.3.1: |
Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking / 1.3.2: |
General Treatment of Symmetries / 1.3.3: |
Heisenberg Model and Rotational Invariance / 1.3.4: |
Symmetry Breaking Fields / 1.3.5: |
Global Gauge Symmetry / 1.3.6: |
Local Gauge Symmetry / 1.3.7: |
Reduced Symmetries and Solids / 1.3.8: |
More Order Parameters / 1.4: |
Heisenberg Magnets / 1.4.1: |
Superfluid [superscript 4]He / 1.4.2: |
Superconductivity / 1.4.3: |
Phase Separation in Binary Alloys / 1.4.4: |
Order-Disorder Transitions in Binary Alloys / 1.4.5: |
Displacive Transitions / 1.4.6: |
Ferroelectric and Antiferroelectric Transitions / 1.4.7: |
Potts Models / 1.4.8: |
Nematic Liquid Crystals / 1.4.9: |
Solids / 1.4.10: |
Smectic A Liquid Crystals / 1.4.11: |
Liquid-Gas Phase Transition / 1.4.12: |
Phase Separation of Binary Fluid Mixtures / 1.4.13: |
Polymer Mixtures / 1.4.14: |
Block Copolymers / 1.4.15: |
Phase Transitions and Breakdown of Translational Invariance / 1.5: |
Coarse Graining and Effective Hamiltonians / 2: |
Introduction / 2.1: |
Effective Hamiltonians / 2.2: |
Overview of Calculations of Effective Hamiltonians / 2.2.1: |
Coarse Graining in a System with a Single Macrovariable / 2.2.3: |
Spatial Correlations and Cell Size / 2.2.4: |
Effective Hamiltonian: Multiple Macrovariables / 2.3: |
Reduced Effective Hamiltonians / 2.4: |
Square Gradient Correction / 2.5: |
Effective Hamiltonian in the Energy Representation / 2.6: |
Mixed Basis Form for the Effective Hamiltonian / 2.7: |
Simple Fluids / 2.8: |
Examples of Characteristic Lengths / 2.9: |
Correlations in a Low-Density Fluid / 2.9.1: |
One-Dimensional Ising Model / 2.9.2: |
Response Experiments / 2.10: |
Microscopic Formulation / 2.10.1: |
Example: Paramagnetic Systems / 2.10.2: |
Example: Moving Coordinate Systems / 2.10.3: |
Effective Hamiltonian Formulation / 2.10.4: |
Coarse Graining, Effective Hamiltonians, and the Renormalization Group / 3: |
Background / 3.1: |
Coarse-Grained Effective Hamiltonians / 3.2: |
Landau-Ginzburg-Wilson (LGW) Effective Hamiltonian / 3.3: |
Mean-Field Theory / 3.4: |
Generalized Equipartition Theorem / 3.5: |
Example: Scalar Case / 3.6: |
Renormalization Group Transformation / 3.7: |
Coarse-Grained Average / 3.7.1: |
Landau-Ginzburg-Wilson Example / 3.7.2: |
Rescaling / 3.7.3: |
Renormalization Group Specification / 3.7.4: |
Fixed Points / 3.7.5: |
Long-Range Interactions / 3.7.6: |
Coarse-Grained Models on Intermediate Length Scales / 3.8: |
Soft-Spin Ising Model / 3.8.1: |
Treatment of Interactions / 3.8.2: |
Evaluation of Coarse-Grained Entropy for a Fluid / 3.8.3: |
Coarse-Grained Entropy for Ising Models / 3.8.4: |
Fluid Mixtures / 3.8.5: |
Density Functional Theory / 3.8.6: |
Critical Phenomena / 4: |
General Phenomenology / 4.1: |
Critical Indices / 4.2: |
Series Expansion Studies / 4.2.1: |
Experimental Results / 4.2.2: |
Universality / 4.2.3: |
The Scaling Hypothesis / 4.2.4: |
The Landau-Ginzburg-Wilson (LGW) Model / 4.3: |
Coarse Graining / 4.3.1: |
Role of Fluctuations / 4.3.2: |
The Renormalization Group (RG) / 4.5: |
Basic Ideas / 4.5.1: |
Renormalization Group (RG) Phenomenology Near a Critical Point / 4.5.2: |
The Renormalization Group Near Four Dimensions / 4.5.3: |
Scaling and the RG / 4.5.4: |
Comments on the [epsilon] Expansion / 4.5.5: |
Nambu-Goldstone Modes / 5: |
Mean-Field Treatment and Broken Continuous Symmetry / 5.1: |
Longitudinal Correlations / 5.2.1: |
Symmetry Breaking Field / 5.2.2: |
Cubic Symmetry / 5.2.3: |
Phase Fields / 5.2.4: |
Goldstone Theorem / 5.3: |
Hohenberg-Mermin-Wagner Theorem / 5.4: |
Examples / 5.5: |
Classical Magnets / 5.5.1: |
Low-Temperature Quantum-Mechanical Implications / 5.5.2: |
General Discussion / 5.6.1: |
Nonrelativistic Particles / 5.6.2: |
Photons / 5.6.3: |
Spin Waves: Ferromagnets / 5.6.4: |
Spin Waves: Antiferromagnets / 5.6.5: |
Gauge Fields and Higgs Phenomena / 5.7: |
Dielectric and Magnetic Materials / 6: |
Dielectric Materials / 6.1: |
Polarization and Maxwell's Equations / 6.2.1: |
Experimental Configurations / 6.2.3: |
Independent Variables / 6.2.4: |
Variational Problem / 6.2.5: |
Dipolar Energy / 6.2.6: |
Electrostatics / 6.2.7: |
Dielectric Slab / 6.2.8: |
Materials Parameters / 6.2.9: |
The Functional E[P] / 6.2.10: |
Stability / 6.2.11: |
Fluctuations / 6.2.12: |
Thermodynamics / 6.2.13: |
Magnetic Materials / 6.3: |
Magnetization and Maxwell's Equations / 6.3.1: |
Fixed External Currents / 6.3.3: |
Fixed Magnetic Induction / 6.3.4: |
Fixed External Field at Infinity / 6.3.5: |
Cases with Macroscopically Uniform Internal Fields / 6.3.6: |
Exchange Contribution to E[M] / 6.3.11: |
Magnetostatic Energy / 6.3.12: |
Fluctuation Spectrum / 6.3.13: |
Phase Transitions and Ordering / 6.3.14: |
Polymers / 6.3.15: |
Flexible Polymer Chains / 7.1: |
Random-Walk Model / 7.2: |
Lattice Formulation / 7.2.1: |
Continuum Formulation / 7.2.2: |
Density Correlations for Ideal Chains / 7.2.3: |
Self-Avoiding Walks / 7.3: |
Continuous Formulation / 7.3.1: |
Perturbation Theory / 7.3.2: |
Flory Theory / 7.3.3: |
Semidilute Polymer Solutions / 7.3.4: |
Screening / 7.4.1: |
Screening and Swelling / 7.4.2: |
Diblock Copolymers / 7.5: |
Neutral Superfluids / 8: |
General Comments / 8.1: |
Normal Flow / 8.2: |
Superfluid Flow / 8.3: |
Quantum-Statistical-Mechanical Treatment of Superflow / 8.4: |
Interpretation of V[subscript 0] and F[subscript V subscript s] / 8.5: |
Superfluid Thermodynamics / 8.6: |
The Superfluid Velocity as a Slow Variable / 8.7: |
The Effective Hamiltonian / 8.8: |
Flow and the LGW Description / 8.9: |
Second Sound / 8.10: |
Superconductors / 9: |
Ginzburg-Landau Effective Hamiltonian / 9.1: |
Uniform Solutions and Condensation Energy / 9.2: |
Fluctuation Effects and Higgs Phenomena / 9.3: |
Meissner Effect and Penetration Depth / 9.4: |
Upper Critical Field / 9.5: |
Upper Critical Current / 9.6: |
Persistent Currents / 9.7: |
Dimensionless Variables / 9.8: |
Surface Energy / 9.9: |
Normal-Superconducting Transition / 9.10: |
Liquid Crystals / 10: |
Complex Systems / 10.1: |
Order Parameter / 10.2: |
Potential Part of the Effective Hamiltonian / 10.2.2: |
The Gradient Part of the Effective Hamiltonian / 10.2.3: |
Spontaneous Fluctuations / 10.2.4: |
Walls and Nonuniform Configurations / 10.2.5: |
Magnetic Fields / 10.2.7: |
The de Gennes Model / 10.3: |
Landau Theory / 10.3.2: |
Fluctuations and Order / 10.3.3: |
Theory of Freezing / 11: |
Density Functional Theory of Freezing / 11.2: |
Hard-Sphere Fluids / 11.2.1: |
Numerical Solution for Face-Centered Cubic (FCC) Lattice / 11.3: |
Nambu--Goldstone (NG) Modes and Elastic Theory / 11.4: |
Defects / 12: |
Scalar Order Parameter Systems and Interfaces / 12.1: |
Mean-Field Solution / 12.2.1: |
[Psi superscript 4] Theory / 12.2.2: |
Asymmetric Case / 12.2.3: |
Polymer Mixture / 12.2.4: |
Liquid--Gas Interface / 12.2.5: |
Broken Translational Symmetry and the NG Modes / 12.2.6: |
Finite-Energy Defects / 12.3: |
Singularities and Topological Invariants / 12.4: |
Topological Stability and Escape to a Higher Dimension / 12.5: |
Vortices in XY Models and Neutral Superfluids / 12.6: |
Single-Vortex Solution / 12.6.1: |
Energy of an Isolated Vortex / 12.6.2: |
Phase Field Approximation and Multiple-Vortex Solutions / 12.6.3: |
Vortices in Superconductors / 12.7: |
Ginzburg--Landau Treatment / 12.7.1: |
London Theory / 12.7.2: |
Heisenberg Model / 12.8: |
Winding Number for an n = 3 Order Parameter / 12.8.1: |
LGW Model / 12.8.2: |
Avoiding Derrick's Theorem / 12.8.3: |
Disclinations and Monopoles in Nematic Liquid Crystals / 12.9: |
Phase Field Approximation / 12.9.1: |
Defect Core Considerations / 12.9.3: |
Monopoles in a Nematic / 12.9.4: |
Strings in a Nematic / 12.9.5: |
Dislocations and Vacancies in Solids / 12.10: |
Elastic Theory and Defects / 12.10.1: |
Straight-Line Screw Dislocation / 12.10.3: |
Straight-Line End Dislocation / 12.10.4: |
Defects in Equilibrium / 13: |
Defects in Low Dimension / 13.1: |
Kinks in One Dimension / 13.1.1: |
Kosterlitz--Thouless Transition in Two-Dimensional Systems / 13.2: |
General Considerations / 13.2.1: |
Quasi-Long-Range Order / 13.2.2: |
Superfluid Density / 13.2.3: |
Two-Dimensional Coulomb Gas / 13.2.4: |
RG Treatment of Parameters / 13.2.5: |
Order Parameter Correlations / 13.2.6: |
Block Copolymer Microphase Separation / 13.3: |
Ohta--Kawasaki Effective Hamiltonian / 13.3.1: |
Lamellar Structure: Weak Segregation / 13.3.2: |
Lamellar Structure: Strong Segregation / 13.3.3: |
Two- and Three-Dimensional Structures / 13.3.4: |
Domains in Ferromagnets / 13.4: |
Domain Wall Solutions / 13.4.1: |
Bloch Wall Solution / 13.4.3: |
Domain Wall Arrays / 13.4.4: |
Intermediate State for Type I Superconductors / 13.5: |
Magnetic Field / 13.5.1: |
Magnetic Energy / 13.5.2: |
Minimum Energy / 13.5.3: |
Mixed State in Type II Superconductors / 13.6: |
Flux Lattice / 13.6.1: |
Brief Review of Transformation Theory in Thermodynamics / A: |
General Theory / A.1: |
Example of a Simple Fluid / A.2: |
Gaussian Averages / B: |
Functional Differentiation and Integration / C: |
Differentiation / C.1: |
Integration / C.2: |
Fluctuation Contribution to Free Energy / C.3: |
Higher-Order Correlation Functions / C.4: |
Parameters for the Effective Hamiltonian / C.5: |
Quantum-Mechanical Linear Response / D: |
Perturbation Theory for Self-Avoiding Walk (SAW) Problem / E: |
Monopoles in the n = 3 LGW System / F: |
Index |