Spin Glasses: 1 (Cambridge Studies in Magnetism, Series Number 1)
Cambridge University Press
Edition: Illustrated, 5/27/1993
EAN 9780521447775, ISBN10: 0521447771
Paperback, 420 pages, 23.4 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm
Language: English
The study of spin glasses is a fascinating new topic in condensed matter physics that has attracted considerable attention over recent years. This book gives a comprehensive account of the subject, and will provide a valuable overview and reference to both newcomers and experts in the field. The authors discuss the most important developments in the theory, experimental work and computer modelling of spin glasses. The first chapters give a general introduction to the basic concepts, followed by a discussion of mean field theory, the only well-established spin glass theory so far. This book will be of interest primarily to condensed matter physicists, but because of the potentially wide applications of the theory involved, the book should also appeal to researchers in other disciplines, including theoretical physics, metallurgy and computational neuroscience.
1. Introduction
2. Models, order parameters, and systems
3. Mean field theory I
Ising model, equilibrium theory
4. Introduction to dynamics
5. Mean field theory II
Ising dynamics
6. Mean field theory III
vector spins
7. Short-range interactions
low-temperature properties
8. Beyond mean field theory
9. Dynamics on many time scales
10. Specific heat, sound propagation and transport properties
11. Competition between spin glass and ferromagnetic or antiferromagnetic order
12. One-dimensional models
13. Random fields and random anisotropy
14. The physics of complexity
15. A short history of spin glasses.