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Topics in Disordered Systems
Tag	Description
020	$a9783034889124
082	$a519.2
099	$aOnline resource: Birkhäuser
100	$aNewman, Ch.M.(Charles Michael)$d1946-
245	$aTopics in Disordered Systems$h[EBook]$cby Charles M. Newman.
260	$aBasel$bBirkhäuser$c1997.
300	$aVIII, 88 pages$bonline resource.
336	$atext
338	$aonline resource
440	$aLectures in Mathematics ETH Zürich, Department of Mathematics Research Institute of Mathematics
505	$a0 Introduction -- 1 Ground States of Disordered Ferromagnets -- 2 Ground States of Highly Disordered Systems -- 3 High Temperature States of Disordered Systems -- 4 Low Temperature States of Disordered Systems -- Appendix A: Infinite Geodesice and Measurability -- Appendix B: Disordered Systems and Metastates.
520	$aDisordered systems are statistical mechanics models in random environments. This lecture notes volume concerns the equilibrium properties of a few carefully chosen examples of disordered Ising models. The approach is that of probability theory and mathematical physics, but the subject matter is of interest also to condensed matter physicists, material scientists, applied mathematicians and theoretical computer scientists. (The two main types of systems considered are disordered ferromagnets and spin glasses. The emphasis is on questions concerning the number of ground states (at zero temperature) or the number of pure Gibbs states (at nonzero temperature). A recurring theme is that these questions are connected to interesting issues concerning percolation and related models of geometric/combinatorial probability. One question treated at length concerns the low temperature behavior of short-range spin glasses: whether and in what sense Parisi's analysis of the meanfield (or "infinite-range") model is relevant. Closely related is the more general conceptual issue of how to approach the thermodynamic (i.e., infinite volume) limit in systems which may have many complex competing states. This issue has been addressed in recent joint work by the author and Dan Stein and the book provides a mathematically coherent presentation of their approach.).
538	$aOnline access to this digital book is restricted to subscription institutions through IP address (only for SISSA internal users)
710	$aSpringerLink (Online service)
830	$aLectures in Mathematics ETH Zürich, Department of Mathematics Research Institute of Mathematics
856	$uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-8912-4