Title Spin Glasses : Criticality and Energy Landscapes Author(s) Baity Jesi, Marco Publication Cham, Springer International Publishing, 2016. Description XXIX, 221 p. 71 illus., 24 illus. in color : online resource Abstract Note This thesis addresses the surprising features of zero-temperature statics and dynamics of several spin glass models, including correlations between soft spins that arise spontaneously during avalanches, and the discovery of localized states that involve the presence of two-level systems. It also presents the only detailed historiographical research on the spin glass theory. Despite the extreme simplicity of their definition, spin glasses display a wide variety of non-trivial behaviors that are not yet fully understood. In this thesis the author sheds light on some of these, focusing on both the search for phase transitions under perturbations of Hamiltonians and the zero-temperature properties and responses to external stimuli. After introducing spin glasses and useful concepts on phase transitions and numerics, the results of two massive Monte Carlo campaigns on three-dimensional systems are presented: The first of these examines the de Almeida???Thouless transition, and proposes a new finite-size scaling ansatz, which accelerates the convergence to the thermodynamic limit. The second reconstructs the phase diagram of the Heisenberg spin glass with random exchange anisotropy. ISBN,Price 9783319412313 Keyword(s) 1. Ceramics 2. Ceramics, Glass, Composites, Natural Materials 3. Composite materials 4. Composites (Materials) 5. EBOOK 6. EBOOK - SPRINGER 7. GLASS 8. History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics 9. Numerical and Computational Physics, Simulation 10. Phase transitions (Statistical physics) 11. Phase Transitions and Multiphase Systems 12. PHYSICS 13. QUANTUM COMPUTERS 14. Quantum Information Technology, Spintronics 15. SPINTRONICS Item Type eBook Multi-Media Links Please Click here for eBook Circulation Data Accession#   Call# Status Issued To Return Due On Physical Location I10400     On Shelf