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Large Deviations in the Free-Energy of Mean-Field Spin-Glasses

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks 2012-10-31 v2 Statistical Mechanics

Abstract

We compute analytically the probability distribution of large deviations in the spin-glass free energy for the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick mean field model, i.e. we compute the exponentially small probability of finding a system with intensive free energy smaller than the most likely one. This result is obtained by computing the average value of the partition function to the power nn as a function of nn. At zero temperature this absolute prediction displays a remarkable quantitative agreement with the numerical data.

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@article{arxiv.0706.1180,
  title  = {Large Deviations in the Free-Energy of Mean-Field Spin-Glasses},
  author = {Giorgio Parisi and Tommaso Rizzo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0706.1180},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

version to be submitted to PRL plus full power series in the appendix, added references and minor corrections