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12 - Critical Phenomena: The Puzzle and Resolution

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2017

Ramamurti Shankar
Ramamurti Shankar
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Yale University, Connecticut
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Quantum Field Theory and Condensed Matter
An Introduction
 , pp. 199 - 223
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2017

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