{ "id": "cond-mat/0011011", "version": "v1", "published": "2000-11-01T14:21:53.000Z", "updated": "2000-11-01T14:21:53.000Z", "title": "Critical Phenomena: An Introduction from a modern perspective", "authors": [ "Somendra M. Bhattacharjee" ], "comment": "Revtex, 26 pages, 2 figures. Lectures given at the SERC School on \"Field theoretic methods in Condensed matter physics\", held at MRI, Allahabad, India", "categories": [ "cond-mat.stat-mech", "hep-lat", "hep-th" ], "abstract": "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.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2000-11-01T14:21:53.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "critical phenomena", "introduction", "modern perspective", "emphasizes", "renormalization group" ], "tags": [ "lecture notes" ], "note": { "typesetting": "RevTeX", "pages": 26, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "inspire": 536065, "adsabs": "2000cond.mat.11011B" } } }