Biroli, Giulio; Cocco, Simona; Monasson, Rémi - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 306 (2002) C, pp. 381-394
Phase transitions, ubiquitous in condensed matter physics, are encountered in computer science too. The existence of critical phenomena has deep consequences on computational complexity, that is the resolution times of various optimization or decision problems. Concepts and methods borrowed from...