A researcher in soft matter whose work combines theory and simulation to study the physics of glass and the formation of spatial structure in complex materials.[ref]
Professional profile of Patrick Charbonneau at Duke University. Research description: theory, simulation, glass problem and microphase formation
His historical and mathematical account of the replica trick explains why averaging a partition function differs from averaging its logarithm when disorder is frozen. It also identifies the ambiguity in the analytic continuation used by this method, helping readers understand both its usefulness for spin glass models and its mathematical limitations.[ref]
Portrait of Patrick Charbonneau
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