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The Two-Dimensional Ising Model
The Two-Dimensional Ising Model
by Barry McCoy and Tai Tsun Wu
Harvard University Press, 1973 Cloth: 978-0-674-91440-7 Library of Congress Classification QC174.85.I8M3 Dewey Decimal Classification 530.132
ABOUT THIS BOOK
ABOUT THIS BOOK
Much of our theoretical understanding of phase transitions is based on the two-dimensional Ising model. Barry McCoy and Tai Tsun Wu clearly show that new techniques have been developed resulting in considerable simplification of the model. They discuss not only spin-correlation functions of the model but also a quantitative study of the influence of impurities on phase transitions. To keep that starting point as elementary as possible, the authors provide all the statistical mechanics needed for the entire book in the first chapter.