Spin Glasses and Complexity / / Charles M. Newman, Daniel L. Stein.
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 e...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2013] ©2013 |
Year of Publication: | 2013 |
Edition: | Course Book |
Language: | English |
Series: | Primers in Complex Systems ;
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (336 p.) :; 5 halftones. 48 line illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE
- INTRODUCTION : WHY SPIN GLASSES?
- 1. ORDER, SYMMETRY, AND THE ORGANIZATION OF MATTER
- 2. GLASSES AND QUENCHED DISORDER
- 3. MAGNETIC SYSTEMS
- 4. SPINGLASSES : GENERAL FEATURES
- 5. THE INFINITE - RANGE SPIN GLASS
- 6. APPLICATIONS TO OTHER FIELDS
- 7. SHORT-RANGE SPIN GLASSES : SOME BASIC QUESTIONS
- 8. ARE SPIN GLASSES COMPLEX SYSTEMS?
- NOTES
- GLOSSARY
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX