Extreme boundary conditions and random tilings
Standard statistical mechanical or condensed matter arguments tell us that bulk properties of a physical system do not depend too much on boundary conditions. Random tilings of large regions provide counterexamples to such intuition, as illustrated by the famous 'arctic circle theorem'...
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| Language: | English |
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SciPost
2021-03-01
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| Series: | SciPost Physics Lecture Notes |
| Online Access: | https://scipost.org/SciPostPhysLectNotes.26 |