Statistical Physics of Spin Glasses and Information Processing: An Introduction
Hidetoshi Nishimori
Abstract
Spin glasses are magnetic materials with strong disorder. Statistical mechanics has been a powerful tool to theoretically analyse various unique properties of spin glasses. A number of new analytical techniques have been developed to establish a theory of spin glasses. Surprisingly, these techniques have offered new tools and viewpoints for the understanding of information processing problems, including neural networks, error-correcting codes, image restoration, and optimization problems. A vast, interdisciplinary field has consequently been developing between physics and information, or more ... More
Keywords: spin glass, information theory, error-correcting codes, statistical mechanics, replica method, image restoration, neural networks
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2001 | Print ISBN-13: 9780198509417 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2010 | DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198509417.001.0001 |
