Non-Perturbative Qft Methods and Their Applications: Proceedings of the 24th Johns Hopkins Workshop Budapest, Hungary 19 - 21 August 2000) (Johns Hopkins ... Problems in Particle Theory//Proceedings)

This text features the proceedings of the 24th Johns Hopkins Workshop on Current Problems in Particle Theory, held in Budapest in August 2000. The papers cover topics such as: conformal boundary conditions; effective average action in statistical physics and quantum field theory; and more. Contents:Conformal Boundary Conditions — and What They Teach Us (V B Petkova & J-B Zuber)A Physical Basis for the Entropy of the AdS3 Black Hole (S Fernando & F Mansouri)Spinon Formulation of the Kondo Problem (A Klümper & J R Reyes-Martinez)Boundary Integrable Quantum Field Theories (P Dorey)Finite Size Effects in Integrable Quantum Field Theories (F Ravanini)Nonperturbative Analysis of the Two-Frequency Sine-Gordon Model (Z Bajnok et al.)Screening in Hot SU(2) Gauge Theory and Propagators in 3D Adjoint Higgs Model (A Cucchieri et al.)Effective Average Action in Statistical Physics and Quantum Field Theory (Ch Wetterich)Phase Transitions in Non-Hermitean Matrix Models and the “Single Ring” Theorem (J Feinberg et al.)Unraveling the Mystery of Flavor (A Falk)The Nahm Transformation on R2 X T2 (C Ford)A 2D Integrable Axion Model and Target Space Duality (P Forgács)Supersymmetric Ward Identities and Chiral Symmetry Breaking in SUSY QED (M L Walker)and other papersReadership: Theoretical, mathematical and high energy physicists.Key Features:The only book that showcases state-of-the-art evaporative self-assembly technique both experimentally and theoreticallyUnique treatment of certain topics in evaporative self-assemblyWritten by leading experts in each area The study of boundary conditions in conformal field theories (CFT) and in the related integrable models has been experiencing a renewal of interest over the last three or four years.