The Theoretical Approaches to Complexity of Phase Transitions in Condensed Matter: From Van Der Waals Theory to Spectral Mean-Field Method
The theoretical description of phase transitions in condensed matter represents one of the most profound and enduring challenges in modern physics, spanning more than a century of intellectual development. From the phenomenological models of van der Waals in 1873 and Landau in 1937, through the statistical-mechanical r...