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Delocalization transition in low energy excitation modes of vector spin glasses

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks 2022-02-01 v1

Abstract

We study the energy minima of the fully-connected mm-components vector spin glass model at zero temperature in an external magnetic field for m3m\ge 3. The model has a zero temperature transition from a paramagnetic phase at high field to a spin glass phase at low field. We study the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of the Hessian in the minima of the Hamiltonian. The spectrum is gapless both in the paramagnetic and in the spin glass phase, with a pseudo-gap behaving as λm1\lambda^{m-1} in the paramagnetic phase and as λ\sqrt{\lambda} in the spin glass phase. Despite the long-range nature of the model, the eigenstates close to the edge of the spectrum display quasi-localization properties. We show that the paramagnetic to spin glass transition corresponds to delocalization of the edge eigenvectors. We solve the model by the cavity method in the thermodynamic limit. We also perform numerical minimization of the Hamiltonian for N2048N\le 2048 and compute the spectral properties, that show very strong corrections to the asymptotic scaling approaching the critical point.

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@article{arxiv.2108.11306,
  title  = {Delocalization transition in low energy excitation modes of vector spin glasses},
  author = {Silvio Franz and Flavio Nicoletti and Giorgio Parisi and Federico Ricci-Tersenghi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.11306},
  year   = {2022}
}