Phase Transitions and Critical Phenomena
{{short description|20-volume series of books on physics}}
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Cyril Domb and Joel Lebowitz (vols. 6-20)
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Phase Transitions and Critical Phenomena is a 20-volume series of books, comprising review articles on phase transitions and critical phenomena, published during 1972-2001. It is "considered the most authoritative series on the topic".
Volumes 1-6 were edited by Cyril Domb and Melville S. Green, and after Green's death, volumes 7-20 were edited by Domb and Joel Lebowitz.{{cite web|url=http://www.chabad.org/news/article_cdo/aid/1787865/jewish/Physicist-Bridged-Religion-and-Science.htm|title=Acclaimed Physicist Cyril Domb, 91, Bridged Religion and Science|accessdate=2013-05-10}}{{cite book|title=Phase transitions and critical phenomena|date=1972 |url=http://ci.nii.ac.jp/ncid/AA00772304|accessdate=2013-05-10|publisher=CiNii}}
Volume 4 was never published. Volume 5 was published in two volumes, as 5A and 5B.
The first volume was praised for its coherent approach.{{cite journal | last=Lee | first=E W | title=Phase Transitions and Critical Phenomena Vol 1 Exact Results | journal=Physics Bulletin | publisher=IOP Publishing | volume=24 | issue=8 | year=1973 | issn=0031-9112 | doi=10.1088/0031-9112/24/8/022 | pages=493}} While praised for its sound theoretical approach, the first volume remained at considerable distance from being able to explain experimental results in things like structural phase transitions.{{cite journal | last=Rae | first=A. I. M. | title=Phase transitions and critical phenomenaedited by C. Domb and M. S. Green | journal=Acta Crystallographica Section A | publisher=International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) | volume=29 | issue=4 | date=1973-07-01 | issn=0567-7394 | doi=10.1107/s056773947300121x | pages=487| doi-access=free | bibcode=1973AcCrA..29..487R }}
The second volume was praised for being well written, and was suggested as a standard reference.{{cite journal | last=Gray | first=P | title=Phase Transitions and Critical Phenomena Vol 2 | journal=Physics Bulletin | publisher=IOP Publishing | volume=24 | issue=5 | year=1973 | issn=0031-9112 | doi=10.1088/0031-9112/24/5/042 | pages=306}} The third volume was also suggested as an index for researchers.{{citation | last=森垣 | first=和夫 | title=C. Domb and M.S. Green 編 : Phase Transitions and Critical Phenomena, Vol. 3; Series Expansions for Lattice Models, Academic Press, London and New York, 1974, xviii+694ページ, 23.5×15.5cm, ￡18.00. |journal=日本物理学会誌 (Nihon Butsuri Gakkaishi)| publisher=日本物理学会 | volume=31 | issue=5 | issn=0029-0181 | doi=10.11316/butsuri1946.31.5.387_2 | language=ja | pages=387–389|year=1976}}
Contents
- Volume 1: Exact Results (1972) {{ISBN|0122203011}}
- 'Introductory Note on Phase Transitions and Critical Phenomena', by C.N. Yang.
- 'Rigorous Results and Theorems', by R.B. Griffiths.
- 'Dilute Quantum Systems', by J. Ginibre.
- 'The C*-Algebraic Approach to Phase Transitions', by G.G. Emch.
- 'One-dimensional Models — Short Range Forces', by C.J. Thompson
- 'Two-dimensional Ising Models', by H.N.V. Temperley.
- 'Transformation of Ising Models', by I. Syozi.
- 'Two-dimensional Ferroelectric Models', by E.H. Lieb and Fa Yueh Wu.
- Volume 2: (1972) {{ISBN|012220302X}}
- 'Thermodynamics' M.J. Buckingham.
- 'Equilibrium Scaling in Fluids and Magnets', by M. Vicentini-Missoni.
- 'Surface Tension of Fluids', by B. Widom.
- 'Surface and Size Effects in Lattice Models', by P.G. Watson.
- 'Exact Calculations on a Random Ising Systems', by B. McCoy.
- 'Percolation and Cluster Size', by J.W. Essam.
- 'Melting and Statistical Geometry of Simple Liquids', by R. Collins.
- 'Lattice Gas Theories of Melting', by L.K. Runnels.
- 'Closed Form Approximations for Lattice Systems', by D.M. Burley.
- 'Critical Properties of the Spherical Model', by G.S. Joyce.
- 'Kinetics of Ising Models', by K. Kawasaki.
- Volume 3: Series Expansions for Lattice Models (1974) {{ISBN|0122203038}}
- 'Graph Theory and Embeddings', by C. Domb.
- 'Computer Techniques for Evaluating Lattice Constants', by J.L. Martin.
- 'Linked Cluster Expansion' M. Wortis.
- 'Asymptotic Analysis of Coefficients', by A.J. Guttmann and D.S. Gaunt.
- 'Heisenberg Model', by G.S. Rushbrooke, G.A. Baker Jr and P.J. Wood.
- 'Ising Model', by C. Domb.
- 'Classical Vector Models', by H. Eugene Stanley.
- 'D-vector Model or "Universality Hamiltonian": Properties of Isotropically-Interacting D-Dimensional Classical Spins', by H. Eugene Stanley.
- 'X-Y Model', by D.B. Betts.
- 'Ferroelectric Models', by J.F. Nagle.
- Volume 4: (Never published)
- Volume 5a (1976) {{ISBN|0122203054}}
- 'Scaling, Universality and Operator Algebras', by L.P. Kadanoff.
- 'Generalized Landau Theories', by M. Luban.
- 'Neutron Scattering and Spatial Correlation near the Critical Point', by J. Als-Nielsen.
- 'Mode Coupling and Critical Dynamics', by K. Kawasaki.
- Volume 5b (1976) {{ISBN|0122203054}}
- 'Monte Carlo Investigations of Phase Transitions and Critical Phenomena', by K. Binder.
- 'System with Weak Long-Range Potentials', by P.C. Hemmer and J.L. Lebowitz.
- 'Correlation Functions and their Generating Functionals: General Relations with Applications to the Theory of Fluids', by G. Stell.
- 'Heisenberg Ferromagnet in the Green's Function Approximation', by R.A. Tahir-Kheli.
- 'Thermal Measurements and Critical Phenomena in Liquids', by A.V. Voronel.
- Volume 6: (1976) {{ISBN|0122203062}}
- 'The Renormalization Group — Introduction', by Kenneth G. Wilson.
- 'The Critical State, General Aspects', by F.J. Wegner.
- 'Field Theoretical Approach to Critical Phenomena' E. Brezin, J.C. Le Guillou and J. Zinn-Justin.
- 'The 1/n Expansion', by Shang-Keng Ma.
- 'The ε-Expansion for Exponents and the Equation of State in Isotropic Systems', by D.J. Wallace.
- 'Dependence of Universal Critical Behaviour on Symmetry and Range of Interaction', by A. Aharony.
- 'Renormalization: Theory Ising-like Spin Systems', by Th. Niemeijer and J.M.J. van Leeuwen.
- 'Renormalization Group Approach to Critical Phenomena', by C. Di Castro and G. Jona-Lasinio.
- Volume 7: (1983) {{ISBN|0122203070}}
- 'Defect-Mediated Phase Transitions', by D.R. Nelson.
- 'Conformational Phase Transitions in a Macromolecule: Exactly Solvable Models', by F.W. Wiegel.
- 'Dilute Magnetism', by R.B. Stinchcombe.
- Volume 8: (1983) {{ISBN|0122203089}}
- 'Critical Behaviour at Surfaces', by K. Binder.
- 'Finite-Size Scaling', by M.N. Barber.
- 'The Dynamics of First Order Phase Transitions', by J.D. Gunton, {{Interlanguage link|M. San Miguel|es|3=Maxi San Miguel}} and P.S. Sahni.
- Volume 9: (1984) {{ISBN|0122203097}}
- 'Theory of Tricritical Points', by I.D. Lawrie and S. Sarbach.
- 'Multicritical Points in Fluid Mixtures: Experimental Studies', by C.M. Knobler and R.L. Scott.
- 'Critical Point Statistical Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory', by G.A. Baker, Jr.
- Volume 10: (1986) {{ISBN|0122203100}}
- 'Surface Structures and Phase Transitions — Exact Results', by D.B. Abraham.
- 'Field-theoretic Approach to Critical Behaviour at Surfaces', by H.W. Diehl.
- 'Renormalization Group Theory of Interfaces', by D. Jasnow.
- Volume 11: (1987) {{ISBN|0122203119}}
- 'Coulomb Gas Formulation of Two-Dimensional Phase Transitions', by B. Nienhus.
- 'Conformal Invariance', by J.L. Cardy.
- 'Low-Temperature Properties of Classical Lattice Systems: Phase Transitions and Phase Diagrams', by J. Slawny.
- Volume 12: (1988) {{ISBN|0122203127}}
- 'Wetting Phenomena', by S. Dietrich.
- 'The Domain Wall Theory of Two-Dimensional Commensurate-Incommensurate Phase Transition', by M. P. M. den Nijs.
- 'The Growth of Fractal Aggregates and their Fractal Measures', by P. Meakin.
- Volume 13: (1989) {{ISBN|0122203135}}
- 'Asymptotic Analysis of Power-Series Expansions', by A.J. Guttmann.
- 'Dimer Models on Anisotropic Lattices', by S.M. Bhattachargee, S.O. Carlos, J.F. Nagle and C.S.O Yokoi.
- Volume 14: (1991) {{ISBN|0122203143}}
- 'Universal Critical-Point Amplitude Relations' V. Privman, P.C. Hohenberg, and A. Aharony.
- 'The Behavior of Interfaces in Ordered and Disordered Systems', by R. Lipowsky, G. Forgacs and Th.M. Nieuwenhuizen.
- Volume 15: (1992) {{ISBN|0122203151}}
- 'Spatially Modulated Structures in Systems with Competing Interactions', by W. Selke.
- 'The Large-n Limit in Statistical Mechanics and the Spectral Theory of Disordered Systems', by A.M. Khorunzhy, B.A. Khorzhenko, L.A. Pastur and M.V. Shcherbina.
- Volume 16: (1994) {{ISBN|012220316X}}
- 'Self-assembling Amphiphilic Systems', by G. Gompper and M. Schick.
- Volume 17: (1995) {{ISBN|0122203178}}
- 'Statistical Mechanics of Driven Diffusive Systems', by B. Schmittmann and R.K.P. Zia.
- Volume 18: (2001) {{ISBN|0122203186}}
- 'The Random Geometry of Equilibrium Phases', by O. Häggström, H.O. Georgii, and C. Maes.
- 'Exact Combinatorial Algorithms: Ground States of Disordered Systems', by M.J. Alava, P.M. Duxbury, C.F. Moukarzel and H. Rieger.
- Volume 19: (2001) {{ISBN|0122203194}}
- 'Exactly Solvable Models for Many-Body Systems Far from Equilibrium', by G.M. Schütz.
- 'Polymerized Membranes, a Review', by K.J. Wiese.
- Volume 20: (2001) {{ISBN|0122203208}}
- Cumulative author, title and subject index including table of contents.