A pedagogical introduction to the replica method for fragile glasses
arXiv:cond-mat/9905318 · doi:10.1080/13642819908223060
Abstract
In this note I present a simplified version of the recent computation (Mezard and Parisi 1998, 1999) of the properties of glasses in the low temperature phase in the framework of the replica theory, using an extension of the tools used in liquid theory. I will only consider here the case of the internal energy at T=0, which can be studied in a simple way without introducing replicas.
7 pages, 1 figure Talk given at Andalo, March 1999; minor errors have been corrected