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PaulHoule · 2022-11-12
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Generically in the theory of phase transitions and critical phenomena the infinite dimensional case is easy because mean field theory works, but there is some dimension at which that breaks, frequently N=6, and you can write an asymptotic expansion in N-ε for the critical exponents which converges enough for most things that you can get the right answers in 3 dimensions.
We worked through this book when I was in grad school...
https://www.amazon.com/Theory-Critical-Phenomena-Introductio...
selimthegrim · 2015-07-05
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The standard one in use at Santa Barbara is http://www.amazon.com/Lectures-Transitions-Renormalization-F...
Some others I have sitting beside me at my desk right now are http://www.amazon.com/Theory-Critical-Phenomena-Introduction..., http://www.amazon.com/Renormalization-Introduction-Operator-... and http://www.amazon.com/Renormalization-Methods-Guide-For-Begi...
The most modern treatment is probably http://www.amazon.com/Scaling-Renormalization-Statistical-Ph...
(For God's sake, stay away from anything written by Zinn-Justin, Itzykson, or Zuber unless you know what you're doing)
Read it in grad school, shows a lot of great uses for Feynman diagrams and such outside of elementary particle physics. Superstring theory uses 12 dimensional physics but to understand exactly how water boils you need fractional dimension physics!