Heidelberg Colloquium on Glassy Dynamics: Proceedings of a Colloquium on Spin Glasses, Optimization and Neural Networks Held at the University of Heidelberg June 9–13, 1986

Disorder, frustration and metastability: The development of a new era....Pages 1-21
Recent experiments on spin glasses: An overview....Pages 23-39
Experiments on relaxation in metallic spin glasses....Pages 40-50
Magnons in spin-glasses in zero-field and in high magnetic fields: Experiments and theory....Pages 51-59
Search for phase transition in the spin glass Eu 0.4 Sr 0.6 S by dynamic susceptibility measurements....Pages 60-65
Dynamics across the transition line in the insulating spin-glass Eu(0.4)Sr(0.6)S....Pages 66-74
Critical static and dynamic measurements of the magnetization of an insulating spinglass – Fractal model interpretation....Pages 75-83
Non-exponential decay of polarization in electric dipole glasses....Pages 84-93
Low temperature experiments on glasses....Pages 94-120
Scaling theory of the ordered phase of spin glasses....Pages 121-153
Dynamics of the formation of ordered domains out of initially disordered configurations....Pages 154-189
Phase transitions and equilibrium dynamics in strongly random Ising spin systems....Pages 190-214
Numerical studies of spin glasses....Pages 215-236
On replica symmetric Ising spin glasses....Pages 237-237
Some remarks on ultrametricity....Pages 238-248
On the dynamic solution of the SK-model: Evidence against ultrametricity and all that....Pages 249-254
Diffusion in ultrametric spaces....Pages 255-274
Relaxation in complex systems....Pages 275-286
A pedestrian review of the theory and application of the simulated annealing algorithm....Pages 287-306
Monte Carlo and mean field slow cooling simulations for spin glasses: relation to NP-completeness....Pages 307-324
Calculating exact ground states of spin glasses: A polyhedral approach....Pages 325-353
Spin glasses and optimization....Pages 354-372
Engineering applications of spin glass concepts....Pages 373-397
Spin-glasses, optimization and neural networks....Pages 399-427
The properties of models of simple neural networks....Pages 429-484
The theory of neural networks: The Hebb rule and beyond....Pages 485-527
Neural networks with asymmetric bonds....Pages 529-537
Irreversible spin glasses and neural networks....Pages 538-546
Nonlinear neural networks: Efficient storage and retrieval of information....Pages 547-568
Short-term memory....Pages 569-576