Quantum Phase Transitions

Part I. Introduction: 1. Basic concepts
2. Overview
Part II. A First Course: 3. Classical phase transitions
4. The renormalization group
5. The quantum Ising model
6. The quantum rotor model
7. Correlations, susceptibilities, and the quantum critical point
8. Broken symmetries
9. Boson Hubbard model
Part III. Non-zero Temperatures: 10. The Ising chain in a transverse field
11. Quantum rotor models: large-N limit
12. The d = 1, O(N ≥ 3) rotor models
13. The d = 2, O(N ≥ 3) rotor models
14. Physics close to and above the upper-critical dimension
15. Transport in d = 2
Part IV. Other Models: 16. Dilute Fermi and Bose gases
17. Phase transitions of Dirac fermions
18. Fermi liquids, and their phase transitions
19. Heisenberg spins: ferromagnets and antiferromagnets
20. Spin chains: bosonization
21. Magnetic ordering transitions of disordered systems
22. Quantum spin glasses
References
Index.