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After a general introduction to the field, we describe some recent results concerning disorder effects on both `random walk models', where the random walk is a dynamical process generated by local transition rules, and on `polymer models',…
In this talk I will review the approach to spin glasses based on the spontaneously broken replica symmetry. I will concentrate my attention mostly on more general ideas, skipping technical details and stressing the characteristic…
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We discuss possible mechanisms that may impact the order of the transition between denaturated and bound DNA states and lead to changes in the scaling laws that govern conformational properties of DNA strands. To this end, we re-consider…
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We introduce a diluted version of the one dimensional spin-glass model with interactions decaying in probability as an inverse power of the distance. In this model varying the power corresponds to change the dimension in short-range models.…
We study the intersection of two independent renewal processes, $\rho=\tau\cap\sigma$. Assuming that $\mathbf{P}(\tau_1 = n ) = \varphi(n)\, n^{-(1+\alpha)}$ and $\mathbf{P}(\sigma_1 = n ) = \tilde\varphi(n)\, n^{-(1+ \tilde\alpha)} $ for…
We study how finite-window sampling (random spatial truncation) and reciprocal-space radial binning influence the detection of hyperuniformity in disordered systems. Using thirteen representative two-dimensional simulation systems (two…
We consider the Random Walk Pinning Model studied in [3,2]: this is a random walk X on Z^d, whose law is modified by the exponential of \beta times L_N(X,Y), the collision local time up to time N with the (quenched) trajectory Y of another…
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We have studied a two dimensional lattice model of Coulomb glass for a wide range of disorders at $T\sim 0$. The system was first annealed using Monte Carlo simulation. Further minimization of the total energy of the system was done using…
We present a spin-1/2 bilayer model for the quantum order-disorder transition which (i) can be solved by mean-field theory for bulk quantities, (ii) becomes critical at the transition, and (iii) allows to include intralayer frustration. We…
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We study deterministic power-law quantum hopping model with an amplitude $J(r) \propto - r^{-\beta}$ and local Gaussian disorder in low dimensions $d=1,2$ under the condition $d < \beta < 3d/2$. We demonstrate unusual combination of…
The QCD corrections to the moments of the invariant mass distribution in the semileptonic $\tau$ decays are considered. The effect of the renormalization scheme dependence on the fitted values of alpha_s(m^2_tau) and the condensates is…
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