This book gives a pedagogical introduction to the physics of amorphous solids and related
disordered condensed matter systems. Important concepts from statistical mechanics such …

Quantum annealers are commercial devices that aim to solve very hard computational
problems, typically those involving spin glasses,. Just as in metallurgic annealing, in which a …

Memory and rejuvenation effects in the magnetic response of off-equilibrium spin glasses
have been widely regarded as the doorway into the experimental exploration of …

Low-temperature properties of crystalline solids can be understood using harmonic
perturbations around a perfect lattice, as in Debye's theory. Low-temperature properties of …

The history dependence of glasses formed from flow-melted steady states by a sudden
cessation of the shear rate γ˙ is studied in colloidal suspensions, by molecular dynamics …

The study of spin-glass dynamics, long considered the paradigmatic complex system, has
reached important milestones. The availability of high-quality single crystals has allowed the …

Using the special-purpose computer Janus, we follow the nonequilibrium dynamics of the
Ising spin glass in three dimensions for eleven orders of magnitude. The use of integral …

We describe Janus, a massively parallel FPGA-based computer optimized for the simulation
of spin glasses, theoretical models for the behavior of glassy materials. FPGAs (as …

Janus is a modular, massively parallel, and reconfigurable FPGA-based computing system.
Each Janus module has one computational core and one host. Janus is tailored to, but not …

Cooling and heating faster a system is a crucial problem in science, technology, and
industry. Indeed, choosing the best thermal protocol to reach a desired temperature or …