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Continued from the back cover: "The authors discuss the most important developments in the theory, experimental work and computer modelling of spin glasses. The first chapters give a general introduction to the basic concepts, followed by a discussion of mean field theory, the only well-established spin glass theory so far. However, it is evident from a comparison of theoretical predictions with experimental data that mean field theory can only give a hint of what happens in real spin glasses. The second half of the book concentrates further on experimental results, scaling theory and work that has been done on computer simulation of the structure of spin glasses. An important factor in making spin class theory such an active field over the last decade is that the new concepts involved, especially those of mean field theory, have important implications in other areas both in and out of physics. The authors devote a separate chapter to combinatorial optimization problems and the theory of neural networks, one of the areas where mean field theory has proved particularly fruitful.
"This book will be of interest primarily to condensed matter physicists, but because of the potentially wide applications of the theory involved, the book should also appeal to researchers in other disciplines, including theoretical physics, metallurgy and computational neuroscience."
BRIEF CONTENTS
Introduction
Models, order parameters, and systems
Mean field theory I: Ising model, equilibrium theory
