Field Theory of Critical Phenomena
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Main topics
Spontaneous symmetry breaking, phase transitions and critical behavior
Scaling, renormalization and universality
Perturbative renormalization group
Universality classes (Ising, Potts, O(n), percolation, self-avoiding walks, …)
Quenched disorder and random critical points
Conformal and integrable field theories
Low-dimensional aspects (Kosterlitz-Thouless transition, continuously varying exponents, bosonization, …)
From exact S-matrices to correlation functions
Phase separation, interfaces and wetting