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Low Temperature Phases, Ordering and Dynamics in Random Media

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Phase Transitions and Relaxation in Systems with Competing Energy Scales

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A pedagogical review of the current theoretical understanding of various collective phenomena in materials with quenched disorder is given. The emphasis is on the nature of ordered phases, their equilibrium dynamics, and development of long-range order and other non-equilibrium dynamic phenomena. The important role played by domain walls in pure and random magnets is used as the primary example, but the concepts developed in this context are applied, briefly, to spin glasses and to the vortex glass phase of dirty Type II superconductors.

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Fisher, D.S. (1993). Low Temperature Phases, Ordering and Dynamics in Random Media. In: Riste, T., Sherrington, D. (eds) Phase Transitions and Relaxation in Systems with Competing Energy Scales. NATO ASI Series, vol 415. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1908-5_1

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