3 papers
cond-mat.mes-hall2005★ 33 cited
Theory of metastability in simple metal nanowires
J. Bürki, C. A. Stafford, D. L. Stein
Thermally induced conductance jumps of metal nanowires are modeled using stochastic Ginzburg-Landau field theories. Changes in radius are predicted to occur via the nucleation of s…
cond-mat.dis-nn2005★ 1 cited
Short-Range Spin Glasses: Results and Speculations
C. M. Newman, D. L. Stein
This paper is divided into two parts. The first part concerns several standard scenarios for how short-range spin glasses might behave at low temperature. Earlier theorems of the a…
cond-mat.dis-nn2004
Short-Range Spin Glasses: The Metastate Approach
C. M. Newman, D. L. Stein
We discuss the metastate, a probability measure on thermodynamic states, and its usefulness in addressing difficult questions pertaining to the statistical mechanics of systems wit…