Abstract
Critical phenomena had posed a challenge for a long time since it is an intrinsically strong coupling problem where traditional perturbation techniques did not work. The difficulty is enshrined in the infinite correlation length at the critical point. The renormalization group (RG) is a technique that is specifically designed to lead to an infinite correlation length. The idea is best set out using the Kadanoff construction in the two dimensional Ising model shown in
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(2006). The Renormalization Group. In: Non-Linear Dynamics Near and Far from Equilibrium. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5388-7_3
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