Perspectives on spin glasses / Pierluigi Contucci, Cristian Giardinà.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Contucci, Pierluigi, 1964-

Contributor:

Giardinà, Cristian.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spin glasses--Mathematical models.

Spin glasses.

Physical Description:

viii, 210 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.

Summary:

"Presenting and developing the theory of spin glasses as a prototype for complex systems, this book is a rigorous and up-to-date introduction to their properties. The book combines a mathematical description with a physical insight of spin glass models. Topics covered include the physical origins of those models and their treatment with replica theory; mathematical properties like correlation inequalities and their use in the thermodynamic limit theory; main exact solutions of the mean field models and their probabilistic structures; and the theory of the structural properties of the spin glass phase such as stochastic stability and the overlap identities. Finally, a detailed account is given of the recent numerical simulation results and properties, including overlap equivalence, ultrametricity and decay of correlations. The book is ideal formathematical physicists and probabilistsworking in disordered systems"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Origins, models and motivations; 2. Correlation inequalities; 3. The infinite-volume limit; 4. Exact result for mean field models; 5. Spin glass identities; 6. Numerical simulations; References; Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780521763349

0521763347

OCLC:

795763801

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