CRITICAL DYNAMICS A field theory approach to equilibrium and non-equilibrium scaling behavior
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Part I Near-equilibrium critical dynamics 1 Introduction 3 1 Equilibrium critical phenomena 5 1.1 Mean-field theory 6 1.1.1 Van-der-Waals equation of state 6 1.1.2 Mean-field theory for the ferromagnetic Ising model 9 1.1.3 Ornstein–Zernicke correlation function 14 1.2 Landau–Ginzburg theory 17 1.2.1 Mean-field theory revisited: Landau expansion 17 1.2.
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