Author: Jan Leonard Hemmen
Publisher: Springer
ISBN:
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 376

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Author: Heidelberg Colloquium on Spin Glasses
Publisher: Springer Verlag
ISBN: 9780387128726
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Marc Mezard
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
ISBN: 9813103914
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 477

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This book contains a detailed and self-contained presentation of the replica theory of infinite range spin glasses. The authors also explain recent theoretical developments, paying particular attention to new applications in the study of optimization theory and neural networks. About two-thirds of the book are a collection of the most interesting and pedagogical articles on the subject.

Author: Michel Talagrand
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9783540003564
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 608

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In the eighties, a group of theoretical physicists introduced several models for certain disordered systems, called "spin glasses". These models are simple and rather canonical random structures, that physicists studied by non-rigorous methods. They predicted spectacular behaviors, previously unknown in probability theory. They believe these behaviors occur in many models of considerable interest for several branches of science (statistical physics, neural networks and computer science). This book introduces in a rigorous manner this exciting new area to the mathematically minded reader. It requires no knowledge whatsoever of any physics, and contains proofs in complete detail of much of what is rigorously known on spin glasses at the time of writing.

Author: Patrick Charbonneau
Publisher: World Scientific
ISBN: 9811273936
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 740

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About sixty years ago, the anomalous magnetic response of certain magnetic alloys drew the attention of theoretical physicists. It soon became clear that understanding these systems, now called spin glasses, would give rise to a new branch of statistical physics. As physical materials, spin glasses were found to be as useless as they were exotic. They have nevertheless been recognized as paradigmatic examples of complex systems with applications to problems as diverse as neural networks, amorphous solids, biological molecules, social and economic interactions, information theory and constraint satisfaction problems.This book presents an encyclopaedic overview of the broad range of these applications. More than 30 contributions are compiled, written by many of the leading researchers who have contributed to these developments over the last few decades. Some timely and cutting-edge applications are also discussed. This collection serves well as an introduction and summary of disordered and glassy systems for advanced undergraduates, graduate students and practitioners interested in the topic.

Author: Anton Bovier
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1461241022
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 381

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Author: Daniel L Stein
Publisher: World Scientific
ISBN: 9814507776
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 277

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This volume is an introduction to the application of techniques developed for the study of disordered systems to problems which arise in biology. Topics presented include neural networks, adaptation and evolution, maturation of the immune response, and protein dynamics and folding. This book will appeal to students and researchers interested in statistical and condensed matter physics, glasses and spin glasses, and biophysics.

Author: Daniel L. Stein
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400845637
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 336

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Spin glasses are disordered magnetic systems that have led to the development of mathematical tools with an array of real-world applications, from airline scheduling to neural networks. Spin Glasses and Complexity offers the most concise, engaging, and accessible introduction to the subject, fully explaining what spin glasses are, why they are important, and how they are opening up new ways of thinking about complexity. This one-of-a-kind guide to spin glasses begins by explaining the fundamentals of order and symmetry in condensed matter physics and how spin glasses fit into--and modify--this framework. It then explores how spin-glass concepts and ideas have found applications in areas as diverse as computational complexity, biological and artificial neural networks, protein folding, immune response maturation, combinatorial optimization, and social network modeling. Providing an essential overview of the history, science, and growing significance of this exciting field, Spin Glasses and Complexity also features a forward-looking discussion of what spin glasses may teach us in the future about complex systems. This is a must-have book for students and practitioners in the natural and social sciences, with new material even for the experts.

Author: V. S. Dotsenko
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 9783718650392
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 266

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Three scientists from the L.D. Landau Institute of Theoretical Physics, Moscow, review recent developments in the theory of spin glasses and related strongly disordered systems. They discuss in particular the problems of irreversibility and nonergodicity in the framework of the mean field theory, a phase transition in three- dimensional spin glasses, and glass-like systems with hidden correlations. Addressed to researchers in theoretical physics. Book club price $59. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author: K. H. Fischer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521447775
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 404

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A comprehensive account of the theory, experimental work and computer modelling of spin glasses.