A Student's Guide to the Ising Model - James S Walker

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Résumé :
This Student's Guide presents a focused and accessible introduction to the Ising model, an important theoretical model that provides a mathematical description of ferromagnetism. Designed as a supplementary resource for undergraduate and graduate students, each chapter includes a selection of exercises, with solutions provided online.

Biographie:
James S. Walker is Emeritus Professor of Physics at Washington State University and has previously held positions at the University of Pennsylvania and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has taught the Ising model both at undergraduate and graduate level and is the author of the highly successful undergraduate text Physics (Addison-Wesley) now in its fifth edition.

Sommaire:
1. The Ising model; 2. Finite Ising systems; 3. Partial summations and effective interactions; 4. Infinite Ising systems in one dimension; 5. The Onsager solution and exact series expansions; 6. The mean-field approach; 7. Position-space renormalization-group techniques; Index.