1997/01/07 by Giorgio Parisi, Parisi, Giorgio
Physics and Astronomy · Materials Science · Economics, Econometrics and Finance · #Theoretical and Computational Physics #Material Dynamics and Properties #Complex Systems and Time Series Analysis
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.cond-mat/9701034
In these lectures I will study some properties that are shared by many glassy systems. I will shown how some of these properties can be understood in the framework of the mean field approach based on the replica method and I will discuss which are the difficulties which we have to face when we apply the replica method to realistic short range models. We finally present a partially successfully application of the replica method to soft sphere glasses.