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Random Fields and Spin Glasses: A Field Theory Approach

Name: Random Fields and Spin Glasses: A Field Theory Approach
Author: Cirano De Dominicis
ISBN: 9780521143554

by Cirano De Dominicis, Irene Giardina

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Overview

In this book the authors deal with the theory of magnetic systems in the presence of frozen disorder, and in particular paradigmatic and well-known spin models such as the Random Field Ising Model and the Ising Spin Glass. They describe some of the most successful approaches to the physics of disordered systems, such as the replica method and Langevin dynamics, together with lesser known results in finite dimension. This is a unified presentation using a field theory language which covers mean field theory, dynamics and perturbation expansion within the same theoretical framework. Particular emphasis is given to the connections between different approaches such as statics vs. dynamics, microscopic vs. phenomenological models. The book introduces some useful and little known techniques in statistical mechanics and field theory including multiple Legendre transforms, supersymmetry, Fourier transforms on a tree, infinitesimal permutations and Ward Takahashi identities. This book will be of great interest to graduate students and researchers in statistical physics and basic field theory.

About the Author:
Cirano De Dominicis is affiliated with the Service de Physique Theorique, Centre d'Etudes de Saclay, France

About the Author:
Irene Giardina is a researcher at the Istituto Nazionale di 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

Synopsis

Theory of magnetic systems for graduate students and researchers in statistical physics and basic field theory.

About the Author, Cirano De Dominicis

Cirano De Dominicis is affiliated with the Service de Physique Théoretique, 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.