From the replica trick to the replica symmetry breaking technique
History and Philosophy of Physics
2022-11-04 v1 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
Abstract
Among the various remarkable contributions of Giorgio Parisi to physics, his formulation of the replica symmetry breaking solution for the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model stands out. In this article, different historical sources are used to reconstruct the scientific and professional contexts of this prodigious advance.
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@article{arxiv.2211.01802,
title = {From the replica trick to the replica symmetry breaking technique},
author = {Patrick Charbonneau},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.01802},
year = {2022}
}
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13 pages; 2 figures