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Statistical Physics of Ensembles of Particles with Random Interactions
Dino Osmanovic , Lenin Shagolsem , Yitzhak Rabin
Bar-Ilan University
Systems with many different interactions pose a challenge to traditional methods of statistical physics. In this talk, we discuss ensembles of particles wihere the interaction between any two particles is a random number (quenched variables). Using heuristic arguments, Monte-Carlo and molecular dynamics simulations we discuss the differences these random quenched interactions cause compared to one component systems and we show that for any temperature there exists a sufficiently large system size above which one can forego the complicated quenched averaging familiar from spin glasses, and calculate statistical averages using standard methods of equilibrium statistical mechanics.