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Spin Glasses

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Mathematics (LNM, volume 1900)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-IX
  2. Spin Glasses: A Perspective

    • David Sherrington
    Pages 45-62
  3. Much Ado about Derrida's GREM

    • Anton Bovier, Irina Kurkova
    Pages 81-115
  4. Local vs. Global Variables for Spin Glasses

    • Charles M. Newman, Daniel L. Stein
    Pages 145-158
  5. Short-Range Spin Glasses: Results and Speculations

    • Charles M. Newman, Daniel L. Stein
    Pages 159-175
  6. Back Matter

    Pages 177-182

About this book

Spin glass theory is going through a stunning period of progress while finding exciting new applications in areas beyond theoretical physics, in particular in combinatorics and computer science. This collection of state-of-the-art review papers written by leading experts in the field covers the topic from a wide variety of angles. The topics covered are mean field spin glasses, including a pedagogical account of Talagrand's proof of the Parisi solution, short range spin glasses, emphasizing the open problem of the relevance of the mean-field theory for lattice models, and the dynamics of spin glasses, in particular the problem of ageing in mean field models.

The book will serve as a concise introduction to the state of the art of spin glass theory, useful to both graduate students and young researchers, as well as to anyone curious to know what is going on in this exciting area of mathematical physics.

Keywords

  • Rang
  • Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model
  • ageing
  • disordered systems
  • random energy model
  • spin glasses

Editors and Affiliations

  • Mathematics Institute, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

    Erwin Bolthausen

  • Weierstraβ Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics, Berlin, Germany

    Anton Bovier

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eBook USD 34.99
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Softcover Book USD 49.95
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