Applications of Field Theory to Statistical Mechanics: Proceedings of the Sitges Conference on Statistical Mechanics Sitges, Barcelona/Spain, June 10–15, 1984 (Lecture Notes in Physics, 216)

Prologue A functional perturbative approach to the classical statistical mechanics....Pages 1-12 The structure and statistical mechanics of glass....Pages 13-30 The statistical mechanics of surfaces....Pages 31-57 Surface effects in phase transitions....Pages 59-77 On the Ising spin glass I. Mean field....Pages 79-89 On the Ising spin glass II. Fluctuations....Pages 91-106 The wetting transition....Pages 107-113 Grassmann variables and supersymmetry in the theory of disordered systems....Pages 115-123 Rigorous studies of critical behavior....Pages 125-139 Anderson transition and nonlinear σ-model....Pages 141-150 Non-perturbative renormalisation in field theory....Pages 151-169 Stochastlc quantization: Regularization and renormalization....Pages 171-188 Self avoiding random walk and the renormalisation group....Pages 189-198 Field theory of the metal-insulator transitions in restricted symmetries....Pages 199-215 Surface tension and supercooling in solidification theory....Pages 216-226 Order and frustration on a random topography....Pages 227-230 On the equation Δψ = κ 2 sinh ψ and its applications....Pages 231-236 The uses of Zeta-function regularization in the dielectric gauge theory of quark confinement....Pages 237-244 One dimensional Heisenberg Ferromagnet equation and the Painleve test....Pages 245-248 Nonlinear crystal growth near the roughening-transition....Pages 249-251 The dynamics of bose-einstein condensation....Pages 252-258 Decay properties of correlations in massless models : The method of correlation inequalities....Pages 259-262 Nonasymptotic critical phenomena....Pages 263-272 Large n expansions for paramagnetic to helical phase transitions....Pages 273-275 The maximal chain model— a one dimensional system with a first-order phase transition....Pages 276-279 Directed lattice animals and the Yang-Lee-Edge singularity....Pages 280-282 Real space renormalization group treatment of superradiance....Pages 283-290 Kondo effect in a one dimensional interacting electron system....Pages 291-294 Time-dependent nucleation in systems with conserved order parameter....Pages 295-304 Mastersymmetries for completely integrable systems in statistical mechanics....Pages 305-315 Scaling approach to self-avoiding random walks and surfaces....Pages 316-326 Long-time dynamics of coupled non-linear oscillators....Pages 327-330 Nonlinear quantum fluctuation-dissipation relations....Pages 331-342 Effects of surface exchange anisotropies on critical and multicritical behavior at surfaces....Pages 343-347 Dirichlet forms and schrodinger operators....Pages 348-350