"This Student's Guide presents a focused and accessible introduction to the Ising model, an important theoretical model that provides a mathematical description of ferromagnetism. Designed as a supplementary resource for undergraduate and graduate students, each chapter includes a selection of exercises, with solutions provided online"--
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. The Ising model; 2. Finite Ising systems; 3. Partial summations and effective interactions; 4. Infinite Ising systems in one dimension; 5. The Onsager solution and exact series expansions; 6. The mean-field approach; 7. Position-space renormalization-group techniques; Index.