Spin Glasses and Complexity: Replica Symmetry Breaking, Frustration, and the Statistical Mechanics of Disordered Systems

2026/07/11 by QNFO Research Collective · 1 voice
Physics and Astronomy · #Theoretical and Computational Physics #Quantum many-body systems #Statistical Mechanics and Entropy

paper · doi:10.5281/zenodo.21304631

openalex publication_date 2026/07/11 · openalex created_date 2026/07/12 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/12

Abstract

A review of spin glass theory from the Edwards-Anderson model through the Parisi replica symmetry breaking solution, with applications to quantum annealing, neural networks, high-dimensional statistics, and the theory of complex systems.

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