Random Fields and Spin Glasses
Subtitle: a Field Theory Approach
Contributors: Giardina, Irene
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Leiden
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 231
ISBN-13: 9780511256448; 9780511254772; 9781280709982
Subjects: Random fields; Spin glasses
Description: 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.
Notes: Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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Table of contents: title: Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Abbreviations; 1 A brief introduction; 2 The Random Field Ising Model; 3 The dynamical approach; 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; Appendix A Renormalization at one loop: phi4 theory (pure Ising); Appendix B Renormalization at one loop: tr phi3 theory (spin glass); Index.