Random Fields and Spin Glasses - A Field Theory Approach

Informationen zum Autor Cirano De Dominicis is affiliated with the Service de Physique Theoretique! Centre Commissariat ... l'Energie Atomique (CEA)! Saclay! France. He has won several prizes including the Langevin prize and Ricard prize from the French Physical Society! the Ampere prize from the French Academy of Sciences! and the Silver Medal of the National Center of Scientific Research. Irene Giardina is a researcher at the Istituto Nazionale de Fisica della Materia! Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR)! and is also affiliated with the Department of Physics at the University of Rome La Sapienza! Italy. Klappentext Theory of magnetic systems for graduate students and researchers in statistical physics and basic field theory. Zusammenfassung This book deals with the theory of magnetic systems in the presence of frozen disorder! using a field theory language covering mean field theory! dynamics and perturbation expansion within the same theoretical framework. This will interest graduate students and researchers in statistical physics and basic field theory. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. A brief introduction; 2. The Random Field Ising model; 3. The dynamical approach; 4. The p=2 spherical model; 5. Mean field spin glasses: one-step RSB; 6. The Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model; 7. Mean field via TAP equations; 8. Spin glass above D=6; 9. Propagators, mostly replicon; 10. Ward-Takahashi identities and Goldstone modes; 11. Alternative approaches and conclusions; Appendices; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Cirano De Dominicis, Cirano De Giardina Dominicis, Irene Giardina, Giardina Irene
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.06.2010
• EAN: 9780521143554
• ISBN: 978-0-521-14355-4
• No. of pages: 232
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Miscellaneous; SCIENCE / Physics / General, SCIENCE / Physics / Condensed Matter, SCIENCE / Physics / Electricity, SCIENCE / Physics / Magnetism, SCIENCE / Physics / Electromagnetism, Electricity, electromagnetism & magnetism, Statistical physics, Electricity, electromagnetism and magnetism