Short-Range Spin Glasses: The Metastate Approach
Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
2007-05-23 v1 Statistical Mechanics
Abstract
We discuss the metastate, a probability measure on thermodynamic states, and its usefulness in addressing difficult questions pertaining to the statistical mechanics of systems with quenched disorder, in particular short-range spin glasses. The possible low-temperature structures of realistic (i.e., short-range) spin glass models are described, and a number of fundamental open questions are presented.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0411426,
title = {Short-Range Spin Glasses: The Metastate Approach},
author = {C. M. Newman and D. L. Stein},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0411426},
year = {2007}
}
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11 pages