edited by A P Young (University of California, Santa Cruz)

The last few years have seen many developments in the study of “frustrated” systems, such as spin glasses and random fields. In addition, the application of the idea of spin glasses to other branches of physics, such as vortex lines in high temperature superconductors, protein folding, structural glasses, and the vulcanization of rubber, has been flourishing. The earlier reviews are several years old, so now is an appropriate time to summarize the recent developments. The articles in this book have been written by leading researchers and include theoretical and experimental studies, and large-scale numerical work (using state-of-the-art algorithms designed specifically for spin-glass-type problems), as well as analytical studies.

• Experiments on Spin Glasses (P Norblad & P Svendlidh)
• Mesoscopic Fluctuation Experiments on Metallic Spin-Glasses (M B Weissman)
• Numerical Simulations of Spin Glass Systems (E Marinari et al.)
• Quadrupolar Spin Glasses (K Binder)
• Beyond the Sherrington–Kirkpatrick Model (C de Dominicis et al.)
• Out of Equilibrium Dynamics in Spin-Glasses and Other Glassy Systems (J-P Bouchaud et al.)
• Quantum Spin Glasses (R N Bhatt)
• Experiments on the Random Field Ising Model (D P Belanger)
• Theory of the Random Field Ising Model (T Nattermann)
• Magnetic Vortices in the Copper Oxide Superconductors: Observation of Lattice, Glass and Liquid Phases (P L Gammel et al.)
• Statics and Dynamics of Disordered Elastic Systems (T Giamarchi & P Le Doussal)
• Vulcanised Matter: A Model Glass? (A Zippelius & P M Goldbart.)
• Protein Folding and Heteropolymers (T Garel et al.)