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.



Zusammenfassung
A self-contained graduate-level introduction to the statistical mechanics of disordered systems.
Titel
Statistical Mechanics of Disordered Systems
Untertitel
A Mathematical Perspective
EAN
9780511166648
ISBN
978-0-511-16664-8
Format
E-Book (pdf)
Veröffentlichung
08.06.2006
Digitaler Kopierschutz
Adobe-DRM
Dateigrösse
2.82 MB
Anzahl Seiten
324
Jahr
2006
Untertitel
Englisch