Replica and Glasses
Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
2007-05-23 v1 Soft Condensed Matter
Abstract
In these two lectures I review our theoretical understanding of spin glasses paying a particular attention to the basic physical ideas. We introduce the replica method and we describe its probabilistic consequences (we stress the recently discovered importance of stochastic stability). We show that the replica method is not restricted to systems with quenched disorder. We present the consequences on the dynamics of the system when it slows approaches equilibrium are presented: they are confirmed by large scale simulations, while we are still awaiting for a direct experimental
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9907052,
title = {Replica and Glasses},
author = {Giorgio Parisi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9907052},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
Contribution to the NATO-ASI school on Liquid State Theory (Patti 1998). 25 pages and 6 figures