| Foreword | |
| Preface | |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Equilibrium States and Phases | p. 18 |
| Phases | p. 18 |
| Fundamental relations | p. 19 |
| Entropy increase | p. 24 |
| Conditions of equilibrium and stability | p. 26 |
| Classification of equilibria | p. 34 |
| Thermodynamic potentials | p. 36 |
| Coexistence of phases | p. 43 |
| Thermodynamic Theory of Phase Transitions | p. 51 |
| Order parameter | p. 51 |
| Coexistence of two phases | p. 52 |
| Metastability | p. 58 |
| Critical point | p. 60 |
| Classifications of phase transitions | p. 63 |
| Compressible systems | p. 66 |
| Phase separation in mixtures | p. 73 |
| Other systems | p. 80 |
| Advantages and disadvantages of the thermodynamic theory | p. 95 |
| Landau Expansion | p. 98 |
| Introductory remarks | p. 98 |
| Appropriate variables | p. 99 |
| Generalized Gibbs potential | p. 101 |
| Landau potential | p. 106 |
| Phase transition line | p. 110 |
| Second order phase transitions | p. 111 |
| First order transitions and the isolated critical point | p. 116 |
| Extended expansion: [actual symbol not reproducible]- theories | p. 121 |
| Multicomponent order parameter and symmetry breaking | p. 128 |
| Effect of external field and susceptibility | p. 131 |
| Miscellaneous topics | p. 137 |
| Statistical Mechanics and Mean-Field Approximation | p. 145 |
| Partition function | p. 145 |
| Fixed external field and order parameter fluctuations | p. 149 |
| Inhomogeneous systems and translational invariance | p. 153 |
| Coarse-graining and effective Hamiltonian | p. 154 |
| Generating functionals and correlation functions | p. 162 |
| Ising model | p. 168 |
| Other models | p. 171 |
| Mean-field approximation | p. 176 |
| Condensation and statistical mechanics | p. 183 |
| Fluctuations and Fields | p. 188 |
| Description of macroscopic fluctuations | p. 188 |
| Spatially independent fluctuations and anisotropy | p. 190 |
| Partition function of spatially independent fluctuations | p. 193 |
| Fluctuation field | p. 202 |
| From lattice to field models and vice versa | p. 207 |
| Integral transformation of microscopic models | p. 215 |
| Short-range and long-range translationally invariant interactions | p. 227 |
| Perturbation Theory of Fluctuation Fields | p. 231 |
| Basic fluctuation Hamiltonian | p. 231 |
| Free field | p. 234 |
| Thermodynamic properties of free fields | p. 240 |
| Correlation function of the free fields | p. 244 |
| Gaussian approximation | p. 250 |
| Perturbation expansion | p. 254 |
| [actual symbol not reproducible] Coordinate representation | p. 261 |
| [actual symbol not reproducible] Momentum representation | p. 272 |
| Dyson equation and self-energy function | p. 278 |
| Notion of renormalization | p. 284 |
| Properties of the standard perturbation series | p. 289 |
| Renormalization Group | p. 297 |
| Modified perturbation scheme | p. 297 |
| Perturbation expansion for the effective Hamiltonian | p. 301 |
| Loop expansion | p. 307 |
| Large-n limit and Hartree approximation | p. 313 |
| Renormalization-group (RG) recursion relations | p. 318 |
| RG in the one-loop approximation | p. 323 |
| Linearized RG in the one-loop approximation | p. 330 |
| RG and thermodynamics | p. 341 |
| RG in the two-loop approximation | p. 351 |
| Other theoretical schemes and methods of calculation | p. 359 |
| Summary of RG and relations with other theories | p. 362 |
| Some Applications | p. 366 |
| Preliminary remarks | p. 366 |
| Ideal Bose gas | p. 366 |
| Nonideal Bose gas | p. 370 |
| Quantum critical phenomena and classical-to-quantum crossover | p. 378 |
| Disorder effects | p. 380 |
| Anisotropy, coupled order parameters and multicritical behaviour | p. 387 |
| Critical properties of superconductors and liquid crystals | p. 396 |
| Appendix: Useful Mathematical Formulae | p. 408 |
| References | p. 427 |
| Subject Index | p. 445 |
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