Phase transitions in spin systems: uniqueness, reconstruction and mixing time

Spin systems are powerful mathematical models widely used and studied in Statistical Physics and Computer Science. This thesis focuses the study of spin systems on colorings and weighted independent sets (the hard-core model). In many spin systems, there exist phase transition phenomena: there is a...

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Main Author: Yang, Linji
Published: Georgia Institute of Technology 2013
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1853/47593