Phase transitions in two dimensions |
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Authors: | Michael N. Barber |
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Affiliation: | Department of Applied Mathematics, University of New South Wales, P.O. Box 1, Kensington, N.S.W., 2033, Australia |
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Abstract: | Recent developments - both theoretical and experimental - in the understanding of phase transitions in two-dimensional systems are reviewed. Topics discussed include the classification and characterization of order/disorder transitions in adsorbed monolayers, the breakdown of universality, superfluidity in helium films and the critical behaviour of the two-dimensional XY model, Abelian and non-Abelian symmetry and the analogies between the theory of phase transitions in two dimensions and quantum field theory, especially quark confinement, in four-dimensional space time. |
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