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Our aim in this set of lectures is to give an introduction to critical phenomena that emphasizes the emergence of and the role played by diverging length-scales. It is now accepted that renormalization group gives the basic understanding of these phenomena and so, instead of following the traditional historical trail, we try to develop the subject in a way that lays stress on the length-scale based approach.
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Bhattacharjee, S.M. (2001). Critical Phenomena: An Introduction from a Modern Perspective. In: Field Theories in Condensed Matter Physics. Texts and Readings in Physical Sciences. Hindustan Book Agency, Gurgaon. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-93-86279-07-1_3
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