Mathematical Statistical Physics

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ÉCOLE D’ÉTÉ DE PHYSIQUE DES HOUCHES

École de Physique des Houches

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Preface

Informal Seminars

Random Matrices and Determinantal Processes

1 Introduction

2 Point processes

3 Non-intersecting paths and the Aztec diamond

4 Asymptotics

5 The corner growth model

Acknowledgement

Some Recent Aspects of Random Conformally Invariant Systems

Overview

Conformal Random Geometry

1 Preamble

2 Introduction

3 Intersections of random walks

4 Mixing random & self-avoiding walks

5 Percolation clusters

Random Motions in Random Media

1 Introduction

2 RWRE

3 RCM

4 Back to RWRE

Effective criterion:

5 Diffusions in random environment

An Introduction to Mean Field Spin Glas Theory: Methods and Results

1 Introduction

2 The mean field ferromagnetic model. Convexity and cavity methods

3 The mean field spin glass model. Basic definitions

4 The interpolation method and its generalizations

5 The thermodynamic limit and the variational bounds

6 The Parisi representation for the free energy

7 Conclusion and outlook for future developments

Acknowledgments

Short-Range Spin Glasses: Selected Open Problems

1 Introduction

2 The Fortuin-Kasteleyn random cluster representation and phase transitions

3 Spin glass ground states and invasion percolation

4 Ground state multiplicity in the 2D EA spin glass

Acknowledgment

Computing the Number of Metastable States in Infinite-Range Models

Acknowledgments

Dynamics of Trap Models

1 Introduction

2 Definition of the Bouchaud trap model

2.2. Assumption 2.2.

2.3. Assumption 2.3.

2.1 Examples of trap models

2.2 Natural questions on trap models

2.3 References

3 The one-dimensional trap model

3.3 Aging results

3.4 Subaging results

3.5 Behaviour of the aging functions on different time scales

4 The trap model in dimension larger than one

4.3 Aging results

4.4 The coarse-graining procedure

4.5 References

5 The arcsine law as a universal aging scheme

6 Applications of the arcsine law

Appendix A Subordinators

Quantum Entropy and Quantum Information

1 Introduction

2 Rudiments of Classical Information Theory

3 Introduction to Quantum Information Theory

4 Open systems

5 Quantum entropy

6 Data compression in Quantum Information Theory

7 Quantum channels and additivity

Acknowledgments

Two Lectures on Iterative Coding and Statistical Mechanics

1 Introduction

2 Codes on graphs

3 A simple-minded bound and belief propagation

4 Density evolution a.k.a. distributional recursive equations

5 The area theorem and some general questions

6 Historical and bibliographical note

Evolution in Fluctuating Populations

1 Introduction

Acknowledgement

2 Some classical coalescent theory

4 Spatial structure and the Malécot formula

5 Spatial models

Multi-Scale Analysis of Population Models

1 Spatial diffusion models of population genetics

2 Duality and representation via coalescent processes

Elements of Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics

1 Elements of introduction

2 Elements of an H-theorem

3 Elements of heat conduction

4 Lagrangian approach

5 A little entropology

6 Closed systems

7 Open systems

8 Why is it useful?

9 What is missing — among other things?

Mathematical Aspects of the Abelian Sandpile Model

Open question

Gibbsianness and Non-Gibbsianness in Lattice Random Fields

1 Historical remarks and purpose of the course

2 Setup, notation, and basic notions

3 Probability kernels, conditional probabilities, and statistical mechanics

4 What it takes to be Gibbsian

5 What it takes to be non-Gibbsian

Acknowledgments

Simulation of Statistical Mechanics Models

1 Overview

2 The Swendsen–Wang algorithm: some recent progress

Acknowledgments