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Disorder enters modeling in a very natural way: interacting “units” (spins, particles, 3 circuits, cells, individuals,…) are not identical, media (solvents, lattices, environ- 4 ments,…) are not homogeneous or regular, and so on. In many instances it is of 5 course very reasonable to assume that heterogeneities, irregularities, impurities,… 6 can be neglected, and even more for toy models.
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Giacomin, G. (2011). Introduction. In: Disorder and Critical Phenomena Through Basic Probability Models. Lecture Notes in Mathematics(), vol 2025. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21156-0_1
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