Physics – Condensed Matter – Statistical Mechanics
Scientific paper
2012-02-09
Physics
Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
17 pages, 5 figures. Review paper to appear in Molecular Physics
Scientific paper
The Hierarchical Reference Theory (HRT) of fluids is a general framework for the description of phase transitions in microscopic models of classical and quantum statistical physics. The foundations of HRT are briefly reviewed in a self-consistent formulation which includes both the original sharp cut-off procedure and the smooth cut-off implementation, which has been recently investigated. The critical properties of HRT are summarized, together with the behavior of the theory at first order phase transitions. However, the emphasis of this presentation is on the close relationship between HRT and non perturbative renormalization group methods, as well as on recent generalizations of HRT to microscopic models of interest in soft matter and quantum many body physics.
Parola Alberto
Reatto Luciano
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