When we lower the temperature of a liquid, at some point we meet a first order phase
transition to the crystal. Yet, under certain conditions it is possible to keep the system in its …

We present a detailed overview of numerical Monte Carlo studies of the dipolar spin ice
model, which has been shown to be an excellent quantitative descriptor of the Ising …

Statistical mechanics is our tool for deriving the laws that emerge from complex systems.
Sethna's text distills the subject to be accessible to those in all realms of science and …

This book shows how the concept of geometrical frustration can be used to elucidate the
structure and properties of nonperiodic materials such as metallic glasses, quasicrystals …

We review recent theoretical progress on glassy dynamics, with special emphasis on the
importance and universality of the aging regime, which is relevant to many experimental …

We study the challenging thermal phase transition to stripe order in the frustrated square-
lattice Ising model with couplings J 1< 0 (nearest-neighbor, ferromagnetic) and J 2> 0 …

We present numerical simulations of avalanches and critical phenomena associated with
hysteresis loops, modeled using the zero-temperature random-field Ising model. We study …

We study via theory and dynamical simulation the evolving structure, particle dynamics, and
time-dependent rheological properties of an aging colloidal gel, with a focus on the micro …

Inspired by the Turing mechanism for pattern formation, we propose a simple self-propelled
particle model with short-range alignment and antialignment at larger distances. It is able to …

We give a bird's-eye view of the plastic deformation of crystals aimed at the statistical
physics community, as well as a broad introduction to the statistical theories of forced rigid …