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arXiv:hep-th/9610197

Field Theory, Critical Phenomena and Interfaces

Gernot Münster, Harald W. Grießhammer, Dirk Lehmann

Published Oct 25, 1996• 0 citations
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Abstract

These lecture notes want to illustrate the close connection between statistical mechanics and field theory not only on the formal level, i.e. that many concepts of one area can easily be taken over to the other one, but also on the level of actual calculations. To this purpose, the last section will demonstrate that a special statistical system, the binary fluid system, can be described by field theory in its critical behaviour.

DOI
10.48550/arxiv.hep-th/9610197

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