Field Theoretical Tools for Polymer and Particle Physics (Paperback)

Random walks in polymer physics.- Random walks in field theory.- Polymer expansion in particle physics.- Polymers, spin models and field theory.- Reaction-diffusion mechanisms and quantum spin systems.- Bosonization in particle physics.- Hadronization in particle physics.- The hybrid monte carlo algorithm for quantum chromodynamics.- The hybrid monte carlo method for polymer chains.- Simulations of toy proteins.- Two lectures on phase mixing: Nucleation and symmetry restoration.- Neural networks and confidence limit estimates.- The gross-neveu model and QCDs chiral phase transition.- The TBA, the gross-neveu model, and polyacetylene.- Solitons in polyacetylene.