Overview of Disordered Systems and some Progress with the Replica Method
Overview of Disordered Systems and some Progress with the Replica Method
- Event time: 1:00pm
- Event date: 20th October 2014
- Speaker: Dr Peter Mottishaw (School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Edinburgh)
- Location: Room 2511, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
Event details
This talk will give an overview of some of the ideas that have proved useful in understanding disordered systems. It will then describe some progress in understanding the replica method in the context of the random energy model, the simplest disordered system where replica symmetry is broken. Disordered systems include materials such as glasses and spin glasses. Problems outside of physics, such as classic optimisation problems, neural networks and genealogy models, can also be considered as disordered systems and have been addressed using replicas and other techniques.
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