TL;DR
This paper honors Leo P. Kadanoff's influential work in statistical mechanics, highlighting his key contributions to critical phenomena and the development of the renormalization group, with a personal account of working in his group.
Contribution
It provides a historical overview of Kadanoff's pioneering contributions and personal insights from the author's experience working with him.
Findings
Kadanoff explained Widom's homogeneity laws using block-spin transformations.
His work laid the foundation for Wilson's renormalization group.
The paper offers a personal and historical perspective on Kadanoff's impact.
Abstract
Leo Kadanoff has worked in many fields of statistical mechanics. His contributions had an enormous impact. This holds in particular for critical phenomena, where he explained Widom's homogeneity laws by means of block-spin transformations and laid the basis for Wilson's renormalization group equation. I had the pleasure to work in his group for one year. A short historically account is given.
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