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Random fields and spin glasses : a field theory approach

"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

Print Book, English, 2006
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 2006