Introduction to Renormalization

Bose-Einstein condensation, superconducting transition, Higgs mechanism, con nement-decon nement transition (QCD, lattice spin models) 1.3 Critical phenomena • Critical phenomena occur in continuous/2nd order phase transitions • de nition: Critical phenomena: non-analytic properties of systems near a continuous phase transition. • de nition:

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