The roles of random boundary conditions in spin systems
Eric O. Endo, Aernout C.D. van Enter, Arnaud Le Ny
TL;DR
This paper reviews how random boundary conditions serve as a simple model for quenched disorder in spin systems, highlighting their role in illustrating key theoretical concepts.
Contribution
It provides a comprehensive review of the use of random boundary conditions to understand disordered spin systems and their conceptual implications.
Findings
Random boundary conditions illustrate quenched disorder effects.
They help clarify theoretical issues in disordered spin systems.
The review summarizes key conceptual insights.
Abstract
Random boundary conditions are one of the simplest realizations of quenched disorder. They have been used as an illustration of various conceptual issues in the theory of disordered spin systems. Here we review some of these results.
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TopicsTheoretical and Computational Physics · Quantum many-body systems · Quantum chaos and dynamical systems