We start our lectures with introducing and discussing the general notion of multifractality spectrum for random measures on lattices, and how it can be probed using moments of that measure. Then we show that the Boltzmann–Gibbs probability distributions generated by logarithmically correlated...

We consider creep processes in plastically deformed materials as a critical process such as proposed by Zaitsev (Physica A 189 (1992) 411). We give arguments that the low-temperature creep rate necessarily has two different modes. During the first (fast) stage of stress relaxation, dislocations...

We consider random walks Xn in Z+, obeying a detailed balance condition, with a weak drift towards the origin when Xn↗∞. We reconsider the equivalence in law between a random walk bridge and a 1+1 dimensional Solid-On-Solid bridge with a corresponding Hamiltonian. Phase diagrams are...

We discuss the influence of spatially correlated noise on the wandering exponent of the crack-front line during slow in-plane crack propagation. For a uniform noise, the wandering exponent in the stastically stationary regime is .35±0.02, while the dynamic exponent is z=0.75±0.02. For...

We study the motion of a massive particle in a quenched random environment at zero temperature. The distribution of particle positions is investigated numerically and special focus is placed on the mean stopping distance and its fluctuations. We apply a scaling analysis in order to obtain...

The Random Field Ising Model (RFIM) following bimodal and Gaussian distributions for the RF is investigated using a finite connectivity technique. We focused on determining the order of the phase transition as well as the existence of a tricritical point as a function of the connectivity c for...

Small-world networks are ubiquitous in real-life systems. Most previous models of small-world networks are stochastic. The randomness makes it more difficult to gain a visual understanding on how do different nodes of networks interact with each other and is not appropriate for communication...

The phase fluctuation near the saddle point solution of the XY-type Landau–Ginzburg–Wilson Hamiltonian with random temperature is studied. Through some examples, it is argued that the systems are self-organized into blocks, which are coupled as a XY model with random bond. The couplings...

In this paper we compute exactly the ground state energy and entropy of the dilute ferromagnetic Ising model. The two thermodynamic quantities are also computed when a magnetic field with random locations is present. The result is reached in the replica approach frame by a class of replica order...