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In this book, the equilibrium and nonequilibrium properties of continuous phase transitions are studied in various systems, with a special emphasis on understan

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This is a textbook which gradually introduces the student to the statistical mechanical study of the different phases of matter and to the phase transitions bet

Topological defects formed at symmetry-breaking phase transitions play an important role in many different fields of physics. They appear in many condensed-matt

This book establishes the fundamental connections between the physics of quantum phase transitions and the technological promise of quantum information.