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In the statistical physics of spin glasses and other systems with quenched disorder, the replica trick is a mathematical technique based on the application of the formula: or:where is most commonly the partition function, or a similar thermodynamic function. It is typically used to simplify the calculation of , reducing the problem to calculating the disorder average where is assumed to be an integer. This is physically equivalent to averaging over copies or replicas of the system, hence the name.