PHASE TRANSITIONS WITH QUENCHED DISORDER: UNIVERSALITY AND NON-SELFAVERAGING.

Victor Dotsenko

Université Pierre et Marie Curie
Long standing problem of the nature of the phase transitions in weakly disordered Ising-like statistical systems [1] is considered from the point of view of the recent developments in the replica method [2]. In particular, non-perturbative [3] and non-selfaveraging [4] phenomena in the critical point are considered, as well as the possibility of the universal probability distribution function for non-self averaging free energy critical fluctuations is discussed [5].
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[5] V. Dotsenko, B. Klumov. Free Energy Distribution Function of a Random Ising ferromagnet. J. Stat. Mech. (2012) P05027.
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