Silvio Franz, Theoretical Physicist


Address: Abdus Salam ICTP, Strada Costiera 11, 
         P.O. Box 586, 34100 Trieste, Italy
e-mail: franzGUESSWHATictp.trieste.it
Phone: (+39) 040 2240 379 
FAX: 
(+39) 040 224163

 
I work on:
   Spin Glasses           
   Structural Glasses     
   Aging Dynamics         
   Evolution modeling    
 

My CV and publication list (~1998)

My CV and publication list in Italian (~2000)

My Ph.D. Thesis (in Italian)




Some of my publications and preprints since 1995:

Glassy Transition and Aging in a Model Without Disorder
     S. Franz and J. Hertz
     Phys. Rev. Lett. 74, 2114-2117 (1995)

``Glassy Mean-Field Dynamics of the Backgammon model''
S. Franz, F. Ritort,
J. Stat. Phys. 85, 131 (1996)

``Fragile-glass behavior of a short range p-spin model''
D.Alvarez,S. Franz and F. Ritort
Phys. Rev. B 54, 9756 (1996)

``Relaxation processes and entropic traps in the Backgammon model''
S. Franz, F. Ritort,
J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 30 (1997) L359

``Error threshold in simple landscapes''
S. Franz, L. Peliti
J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 30 (1997) 4481

``Phase diagram of coupled glassy systems: a mean-field study''
S. Franz, G. Parisi
Phys. Rev. Lett. 79 (1997) 2486

``Temperature evolution and bifurcations of metastable states in mean-field spin glasses, with connections with structural glasses''
A. Barrat, S. Franz, G. Parisi,
J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 30 (1997) 5593

``Basins of attraction of metastable states of the spherical p-spin model''
A. Barrat, S. Franz,
J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 31 (1998) L119

``Glass transition and effective potential in the hypernetted chain approximation''
S. Franz, M. Cardenas, G. Parisi
J.Phys. A: Math. Gen. 31 (1998) L163

``Effective potential in glassy systems: theory and simulations''
S. Franz, G. Parisi
Physica A 261 (1998) 317

Effective potentials in glassy systems
    Author(s): S. Franz; G. Parisi
    Source: Philosophical Magazine B (Taylor & Francis Ltd)
    Year: 1998 Volume: 77 Number: 2 Pages: 239-243

``Constrained Boltzmann-Gibbs measures and effective potential for glasses in the hypernetted chain approximation and numerical simulations''
S. Franz, M. Cardenas, G. Parisi
J.Chem. Phys. 110 (1999) 1726

``Measuring equilibrium properties in aging systems''
S. Franz, M. Mezard, G. Parisi and L.Peliti
Phys. Rev. Lett. 81(1998) 1758

``Crossover behaviour of a one dimensional Random Energy Model''
M. Campellone, S. Franz and G. Parisi
Phys. Rev. E 58 (1998) 5455

Comment on "Dynamical Heterogeneities in a Supercooled Lennard-Jones Liquid"
S.Franz and G.Parisi
preprint cond-mat/9804084 (unpublished)

``Critical properties of a three dimensional p-spin model''
S. Franz and G. Parisi
Eur. Phys. J. B 8 (1999) 3, 417

"Overlap properties and adsorption transition of two Hamiltonian paths"
S. Franz, T. Garel and H. Orland
preprint cond-mat/9812059
Eur. Phys. J. B 11 (1999) ,63

On dynamical correlations in supercooled liquids
Author(s): Silvio Franz; Claudio Donati; Giorgio Parisi; Sharon C. Glotzer
 Source: Philosophical Magazine B (Taylor & Francis Ltd)
Year: 1999 Volume: 79 Number: 11 Pages: 1827-1831

"Ultrametricity in 3D Edwards-Anderson spin glasses"
S. Franz and F. Ricci-Tersenghi
preprint cond-mat/9903130
Phys. Rev. E 61 (2000) 1121

"The response of glassy systems to random perturbations: A bridge between equilibrium and off-equilibrium"
S. Franz, M. Mezard, G. Parisi, L. Peliti
preprint cond-mat/9903370
J. Stat. Phys. 97 (1999) 459

"Theory of Non-linear Susceptibility and Correlation Length in Glasses and Liquids"
C. Donati, S. Franz, G. Parisi, S.C. Glotzer
Preprint cond-mat/9905433
Proc. of the 4th International Discussion Meeting on Relaxations in Complex Systems
Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids Volume: 307-310, September, 2002, pp. 215-224

"Quasi-equilibrium interpretation of aging dynamics"
S. Franz, M. A. Virasoro
Preprint cond-mat/9907438
J. Phys. A 33 (2000) 891

"On nonlinear susceptibility in supercooled liquids"
 S.Franz, G. Parisi
Preprint cond-mat/0005095
Proceedings of the Conference "Unifying Concepts in Glass Physics" ICTP, Trieste, 15 - 18 September 1999 , J. Phys. Condens. Matter. 12 (2000) 6335

"Non trivial overlap distribution at zero temperature"
S. Franz, G. Parisi
Preprint cond-mat/0006188
Eur. Phys. J. B 18, 485-491 (2000)

"Spectral Statistics of Instantaneous Normal Modes in Liquids and Random Matrices"
Srikanth Sastry, Nivedita Deo, Silvio Franz
Preprint cond-mat/0101078
Phys. Rev. E 64, 016305 (2001)

Random Heteropolymer Dynamics
 Zoran Konkoli , John Hertz , Silvio Franz
cond-mat/0101406
Phys. Rev. E  64 051910 (2001)

A ferromagnet with a glass transition
 S. Franz, M. Mezard, F. Ricci-Tersenghi, M. Weigt, R. Zecchina
cond-mat/0103026
Europhys. Lett. 55 (2001) 465

Exact solutions for diluted spin glasses and optimization problems
S. Franz, M. Leone, F. Ricci-Tersenghi, R. Zecchina
cond-mat/0103328
Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 127209 (2001)

Kob-Andersen model: a non-standard mechanism for the glassy transition
 S. Franz, R. Mulet, G. Parisi
cond-mat/0108120
Phys. Rev. E 65,  021506 (2002)

Testing the Edwards hypothesis in spin systems under tapping dynamics
Johannes Berg, Silvio Franz, Mauro Sellitto
cond-mat/0111485
Eur. Phys. J. B 26, 349-356 (2002)

On the Tail of the Overlap Probability Distribution in the Sherrington--Kirkpatrick Model
Alain Billoire, Silvio Franz, Enzo Marinari
cond-mat/0206224
J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 36 No 1 (10 January 2003) 15-27

The Dynamic Phase Transition for Decoding Algorithms
Silvio Franz, Michele Leone, Andrea Montanari, Federico Ricci-Tersenghi
cond-mat/0205051
Phys. Rev. E 66, 046120 (2002)

Replica bounds for optimization problems and diluted spin systems
Silvio Franz, Michele Leone
cond-mat/0208280
J. Stat. Phys.  111 (2003) 535

How glasses explore configuration space
Silvio Franz
cond-mat/0212091
To appear in the proceedings of the "3rd workshop on non-equilibrium phenomena in supercooled fluids, glasses and amorphous materials" Pisa 22-27 September 2002
J. Phys. Condens. Matter 15 (2003) S881

Quasi-equilibrium during aging of the 2D Edwards-Anderson model
S. Franz, V. Lecomte and R. Mulet
Phys. Rev. E 68, 066128 (2003)


Fenomeni di non-equilibrio nei sistemi vetrosi
S. Franz
Vol. H-W, Enciclopedia del '900, Supplemento III, Istituto
  dell'Enciclopedia Italiana, Treccani ed. 2004 pag. 443-450.

Replica bounds for diluted non-Poissonian spin systems
Silvio Franz, Michele Leone and Fabio Lucio Toninelli
J. Phys. A 36 10967 (2003)


The Kac limit for finite-range spin glasses
S. Franz and F. L. Toninelli
Phys. Rev. Lett. 92 030602 (2004)

The Kac limit for diluted spin glasses

S. Franz and F.L. Toninelli
Proceeding of the conference "Perspectives on Quantum Field
Theory, Statistical Mechanics and Stochastics" in honour of the 60th
birthday of Francesco Guerra. Int. J. Mod. Phys. B {\bf 18} (2004) 675.

Finite-range spin glasses in the Kac limit: free energy and local observables
S. Franz and F. L. Toninelli
J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. {\bf 37} (2004) 7433

On Pre-Asymptotic Aging in Finite Dimensional Spin Glasses
S. Franz, V. Lecomte and  R. Mulet 
Proceeding of the conference
"Unifying Concepts in Granular Media and Glasses" June 25 - 28, 2003 Villa
Orlandi, Anacapri Capri, A. Coniglio, A. Fierro H.J. Herrmann and
M. Nicodemi eds. Elsevier 2004 p. 119-128

Number partitioning as random energy model
H. Bauke, S. Franz and S. Mertens
J. Stat. Mech.: Theor. Exp. (2004) P04003

Book review
Critical Phenomena in Natural Sciences: Chaos, Fractals, Selforganization and Disorder: Concepts and Tools
by D Sornette
J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 37 No 40 (8 October 2004) 9604-6905

A Field-Theoretical Approach to the Spin-Glass Trensition: Models with Long but Finite
Interaction Range
S. Franz and F. L. Toninelli
J. Stat. Mech.: Theor. Exp. (2005) P01008

First Steps of a Nucleation Theory in Disordered Systems
S. Franz
J. Stat. Mech. (2005) P04001

A note on the Guerra and Talagrand theorems for Mean Field Spin Glasses: the simple case of spherical models
S. Franz and F. Tria
JSP Volume 122, Number 2   January 2006 p. 313 - 332
preprint cond-mat/0504032

A minimal stochastic model for influenza evolution
Francesca Tria, Michael Laessig, Luca Peliti, Silvio Franz
J. Stat. Mech. (2005) P07008
preprint q-bio.PE/0505035



Metastable states, relaxation times and free-energy barriers in finite-dimensional glassy systems
Silvio Franz
Europhys. Lett. 73 (2006) p. 492


Glassy Disordered Systems: Dynamical Evolution
Silvio Franz
Encyclopedia of Mathematical Physics, eds. J.-P. Françoise, G.L. Naber and
Tsou S.T.  Oxford: Elsevier, 2006 (ISBN 978-0-1251-2666-3), volume 2 page 553.

Local Spin Glass Order in 1D
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Silvio Franz, Giorgio Parisi
Europhys. Lett., 75 (3), pp. 385-391 (2006)
Dynamical and mosaic length scales in a Kac glass model
Silvio Franz, Andrea Montanari
cond-mat/0606113
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On the dynamics of Kac $p$-spin glasses
Silvio Franz
JSP Special Issue on the Cortona Meeting "Mathematical Physics of Spin Glasses", Cortona (Italy), June 27 - July 2, 2005
Subj-class: Statistical Mechanics; Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
  cond-mat/0604053




Some Links:

My bookmarks

The Abdus Salam ICTP home page

Statistical Physics and Complex Systems at ICTP

An ICTP school on disordered and glassy systems

A Workshop on Glasses at ICTP

A Workshop on Error Correcting Codes at ICTP

A Workshop on Granular Matter at ICTP


A few Talks and Lectures


The transparencies of my lectures on Spin glasses and Glasses at the
"INTERNATIONAL KAS-SCHOOL CURRENT TRENDS IN STATISTICAL PHYSICS"
   Kas Turkey,  September 24 - October 4 2002

The transparencies of my lectures at the "1st Latin-American School and Conference on  Statistical  Physics and Interdisciplinary Applications"  March  2005

"Unifying Concepts in Granular Media and Glasses" June 25 - 28, 2003 Villa
Orlandi, Anacapri Capri, talk

``On Pre-Asymptotic Aging in Finite Dimensional Spin Glasses''

Bangalore STATPHYS
"Spin Glasses in the Kac limit"

Monte Verita```Equilibrium and Dynamics of Spin Glasses'' 18-23 April 2004
Monte Verit\`a Ascona, Switzerland, talk

``Interpolating Models for  Diluted Spin Glasses and Random KSAT''.

Workshop on Statistical Physics and Computational Problems; Beyond the Analogy:
Paris,  France, 14 - 16 June 2004 Talk
``Interpolation inequalitites in diluted spin models and SAT problems''

 "Lengthscales and Heterogeneous Dynamics in Glassy Materials"
New College, Oxford, UK, 22 - 25 September 2004. Talk ``Glassy systems
 in the Kac limit'' 

``First Latin American School and Conference on Statistical
  Mechanics and Interdisciplinary Applications'' La Havana, Cuba, 28
  February -12 March 2005. Lectures on Spin Glass Theory , Talk
  ``First Steps of a Nucleation Theory in Disordered Systems''

Trieste 19-05-2005 ``First Steps of a Nucleation Theory in Disordered Systems''

My lectures at the South-Pacific School on Statistical Physics and Interdisciplinary Applications (ITP Beijing September 11-22 2006)
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