Statistical Mechanics of Disordered Systems : A Mathematical Perspective Paperback / softback
by Anton (Technische Universitat Berlin and Weierstraß-Institut fur Angewandte Analysis und Sto Bovier
Part of the Cambridge Series in Statistical and Probabilistic Mathematics series
Paperback / softback
Description
This self-contained book is a graduate-level introduction for mathematicians and for physicists interested in the mathematical foundations of the field, and can be used as a textbook for a two-semester course on mathematical statistical mechanics.
It assumes only basic knowledge of classical physics and, on the mathematics side, a good working knowledge of graduate-level probability theory.
The book starts with a concise introduction to statistical mechanics, proceeds to disordered lattice spin systems, and concludes with a presentation of the latest developments in the mathematical understanding of mean-field spin glass models.
In particular, progress towards a rigorous understanding of the replica symmetry-breaking solutions of the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick spin glass models, due to Guerra, Aizenman-Sims-Starr and Talagrand, is reviewed in some detail.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:328 pages
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:19/07/2012
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- ISBN:9781107405332
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:328 pages
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:19/07/2012
- Category:
- ISBN:9781107405332
