Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Nomenclature; 1 Introduction; 2 Principles of statistical mechanics; 3 Lattice gases and spin systems; 4 The Gibbsian formalism for lattice spin systems; 5 Cluster expansions; 6 Gibbsian formalism and metastates; 7 The random-field Ising model; 8 Disordered mean-field models; 9 The random energy model; 10 Derrida's generalized random energy models; 11 The SK models and the Parisi solution; 12 Hopfield models; 13 The number partitioning problem; References; Index
Summary
A self-contained graduate-level introduction to the statistical mechanics of disordered systems. In three parts, the book treats basic statistical mechanics; disordered lattice spin systems; and latest developments in the mathematical understanding of mean-field spin glass models. It assumes basic knowledge of classical physics and working knowledge of graduate-level probability theory
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-308) and index
