Order, Disorder And Criticality: Advanced Problems Of Phase Transition Theory - Volume 6 : World Scientific Publishing : 9789811216213 : 9811216215 : 02 Jul 2020 : This book is the sixth volume of reviews on advanced problems of phase transitions and critical phenomena, with the first five volumes appearing in 2004, 2007, 2012, 2015, and 2018. It aims to provide an overview of those aspects of criticality and related topics that have attracted much attention due to the recent contributions. The seven chapters discuss criticality of complex systems, where the new, emergent properties appear via collective behaviour of simple elements. Since all complex systems involve cooperative behaviour between many interconnected components, the field of phase transitions and critical phenomena provides a very natural conceptual and methodological framework for their study. As for the previous volumes, this book is based on the review lectures that were given in Lviv (Ukraine) at the "Ising lectures