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Color symmetry and ferromagnetism in Potts spin glass

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks 2026-01-13 v2 Mathematical Physics math.MP Probability

Abstract

We consider the Potts spin glass with additional ferromagnetic interaction parametrized by tt. It has long been observed that the Potts color symmetry breaking for the spin glass order parameter is closely related to the ferromagnetic phase transition. To clarify this, we identify a single critical value tct_\mathrm{c}, which marks the onset of both color symmetry breaking and the transition to ferromagnetism.

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@article{arxiv.2412.20607,
  title  = {Color symmetry and ferromagnetism in Potts spin glass},
  author = {Hong-Bin Chen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.20607},
  year   = {2026}
}

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13 pages; journal version