Holovatch Yu. (Ed.) Order, Disorder and Criticality: Advanced Problems of Phase Transition Theory. Volume 2

World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., 2007. – 308 p. – ISBN: 9812707670.”Order, Disorder, and Criticality” - a book with this title appeared in the World Scientific almost three years ago.a The aim of the volume was to review a number of problems related to phase transitions and critical phenomena that have attracted considerable attention due to essentially new contributions. More broadly, the book also aimed to demonstrate that the phase transition theory, which experienced its ’golden age’ during the 1970s and 1980s, was far from over and there was still a good deal of work to be done, both on the fundamental level and in respect of applications. It is, of course, impossible to cover all recent developments on pages of a single book; moreover, new directions in research continue to appear.
The topics presented in this volume include: critical behavior as explained by the non-perturbative renormalization group, critical dynamics, a spacetime approach to phase transitions, self-organized criticality, and exactly solvable models of phase transitions in strongly correlated systems.
Contents of vol. 2
Introduction to the Non-Perturbative Renormalization Group
Introduction to Critical Dynamics
Spacetime Approach to Phase Transitions
Representations of Self-Organized Criticality
Phase Transitions in the Pseudospin-Electron Model