Physics Bulletin

Introduction to Phase Transitions and Critical Phenomena

D. J. Thouless

Published Apr 1, 1972• 194 citations

Abstract

H E Stanley Oxford: University Press 1971 pp xx + 308 price £5 In the past fifteen years or so there has been a lot of experimental and theoretical work on the nature of critical phenomena in the neighbourhood of second order phase transitions. It has not been easy to get a good overall view of this work without digging through the rather complex original literature, although there are some good review articles covering particular aspects of the work.

DOI: 10.1088/0031-9112/23/4/018

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