= Annealed disorder
<Annealed disorder> allows the variables representing disorder to equilibrate along with the <spins>. With a specified normalized prior measure over couplings, its <partition function> is the average $\mathbb E_J Z_J$. This differs from preparing samples with fixed couplings and averaging their measured thermodynamics, as in <quenched disorder>.<Out of equilibrium dynamics of complex systems by Leticia Fernanda Cugliandolo>[§4.2, pp. 83–86, fixed disorder versus annealed partition-function averaging]{ref}
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