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Previously we considered a variety of equilibrium systems which undergo second-order phase transitions. In this chapter we will show how the idea of scaling leads to a universal theory of critical phenomena, and we will derive some exact results for order-disorder transitions.
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x ∈ A may appear several times, similarly as in Sect. 8.6.
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Wipf, A. (2021). Renormalization Group on the Lattice. In: Statistical Approach to Quantum Field Theory. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 992. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-83263-6_11
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