Variational approach to interfaces in random media: Negative variances and replica symmetry breaking

Journal de Physique II

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 1513-1521

  Saakian, D B ^a   Nieuwenhuizen, Th M ^b  

^a YEREVAN PHYSICS INSTITUTE   (Armenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ENTROPY; FREE ENERGY; INTERFACIAL ENERGY; MAGNETIC MATERIALS; POLYMERS; SPECIFIC HEAT; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES;

RANDOM MAGNETS; SPIN GLASSES; VARIATIONAL ANSATZ;

INTERFACES (MATERIALS);

EID: 0031357545     PISSN: 11554312     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/jp1:1997152     Document Type: Article

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