2000/11/01 by Somendra M. Bhattacharjee, Bhattacharjee, Somendra M.
Physics and Astronomy · Social Sciences · #Critical Realism in Sociology #Critical Theory and Philosophy #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat) #High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th) #Political Economy and Marxism #Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech) #cond-mat.stat-mech #hep-lat #hep-th
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Revtex, 26 pages, 2 figures. Lectures given at the SERC School on "Field theoretic methods in Condensed matter physics", held at MRI, Allahabad, India
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Our aim in this set of lectures is to give an introduction to critical phenomena that emphasizes the emergence of and the role played by diverging length-scales. It is now accepted that renormalization group gives the basic understanding of these phenomena and so, instead of following the traditional historical trail, we try to develop the subject in a way that emphasizes the length-scale based approach.