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Publications and source records attributed to Giovanni Ferraro.
We introduce several bilocal algorithms for lattice self-avoiding walks that provide reasonable models for the physical kinetics of polymers in the absence of hydrodynamic effects. We discuss their ergodicity in different confined geometries, for instance in strips and in slabs. A short discussion of the dynamical properties in the absence of interactions is given.
In a recent work (Eissfeller and Opper, 1992) a numerical method has been proposed to simulate off-equilibrium zero-temperature parallel dynamics for the SK model without finite size effects. We study the extension of the method to non-zero temperature and sequential dynamics, and analyze more carefully the involved computational problems. We find evidence, in the glassy phase, for an algebraic relaxation of the energy density to its equilibrium value, at least at large enough temperatures, and for an algebraic relaxation of the magnetization to zero at non-zero temperatures, with an exponent directly proportional to the temperature.
A simple model of a frustrated disordered system is presented. Apart from the (very different) physical interpretation, the model shares many features with that of Sherrington-Kirkpatrick for spin glasses, but, as a consequence of its relative simplicity, its ground state can be exactly determined by numerical methods. This fact allows us to test experimentally some theoretical predictions, based on a specialization of the ``cavity method'' developed for the SK model, which is presently limited to a ``non-frustrated'' approximation, corresponding to some extent to the replica-symmetric one for the SK model.