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Disordered Electronic Materials and Spin Glasses

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Abstract

The study of well ordered, chemically pure, crystalline solids in thermal equilibrium has occcupied a prominent position in traditional condensed matter physics. It is less well known that systematic studies of classes of poorly ordered, chemically impure, noncrystalline materials, often not in a state of thermal equilibrium, have also led to very important developments, particularly in the past decade or so. These developments have led to new fundamental insights into the physics of materials as well as to applications1–3. The primary purpose of this lecture is to provide a concise pedagogical introduction to a selection of properties of disordered systems, with particular emphasis on spin glasses. Numerical results for a number of spin glass models will be surveyed briefly. Some recent results for metallic spin glasses will be given and challenging areas for further work will be indicated.

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  1. Department of Physics, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, B3H 3J5

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Geldart, D.J.W. (1995). Disordered Electronic Materials and Spin Glasses. In: Neilson, D., Das, M.P. (eds) Computational Approaches to Novel Condensed Matter Systems. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9791-6_11

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