Spin bosons and spin glasses

Thesis

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Contents

Introduction

Part I Spherical Model

1 Phase transitions and critical phenomena

2 Quantum spherical model

Part II Spin-Boson Model

3 Introduction

4 Solvable model

5 Work extraction

6 Cooling of spins

Part III Spin Glasses

7 Introduction to spin glasses

8 Transition temperature in metallic spin glasses

9 The Ising Spin-Glass on a Hypercubic Cell

Bibliography

Samenvatting

Acknowledgements

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