Wilson's renormalization group : a paradigmatic shift

Edouard Brézin (1)

1 LPTENS - Laboratoire de Physique Théorique de l'ENS [École Normale Supérieure]

A personal and subjective recollection, concerning mainly Wilson's lectures delivered over the spring of 1972 at Princeton University (summary of a talk at Cornell University on November 16, 2013 at the occasion of the memorial Kenneth G. Wilson conference).

Mots clés: renormaiization group; critical phenomena

Domaines: Mécanique statistique [cond-mat.stat-mech]

Edouard Brézin. Wilson's renormalization group : a paradigmatic shift. 2014. ⟨hal-00946149⟩