Spin glasses and fragile glasses: statics, dynamics, and complexity.
In this paper I will briefly review some theoretical results that have been obtained in recent years for spin glasses and fragile glasses. I will concentrate my attention on the predictions coming from the so called broken replica symmetry approach and on their experimental verifications. I will also mention the relevance or these results for other fields, and in general for complex systems.
Parisi
Giorgio
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Dipartimento di Fisica, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Center for Statistical Mechanics and Complexity, Università di Roma "La Sapienza," Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, I-00185 Rome, Italy. giorgio.parisi@roma1.infn.it
D002627:Chemistry, Physical / Q000379:methods; D002965:Classification; D003460:Crystallization; D005898:Glass / Q000737:chemistry*; D008433:Mathematics; D015233:Models, Statistical; D013597:Systems Analysis