Continuous Phase Transitions

The following sections are included:

• Historical Background

• Widom Scaling Theory

• The Ising Model: Rescaled

• Fixed Points

• Phenomenology of Scaling Fields

• Theory of Scaling Fields

• Scaling Relations for Operators

• Transforming Operators

• Universality

• Operator Product Expansions

• Reprints on Critical Correlations

  • Kadanoff: Correlations Along a Line

  • Kadanoff–Wegner: Marginal Behavior