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Mean-Field Equations for Spin Models with Orthogonal Interaction Matrices

Condensed Matter 2009-10-28 v2

Abstract

We study the metastable states in Ising spin models with orthogonal interaction matrices. We focus on three realizations of this model, the random case and two non-random cases, i.e.\ the fully-frustrated model on an infinite dimensional hypercube and the so-called sine-model. We use the mean-field (or {\sc tap}) equations which we derive by resuming the high-temperature expansion of the Gibbs free energy. In some special non-random cases, we can find the absolute minimum of the free energy. For the random case we compute the average number of solutions to the {\sc tap} equations. We find that the configurational entropy (or complexity) is extensive in the range T\mboxRSB<T<T\mboxMT_{\mbox{\tiny RSB}}<T<T_{\mbox{\tiny M}}. Finally we present an apparently unrelated replica calculation which reproduces the analytical expression for the total number of {\sc tap} solutions.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9503009,
  title  = {Mean-Field Equations for Spin Models with Orthogonal Interaction Matrices},
  author = {Giorgio Parisi and Marc Potters},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9503009},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

22+3 pages, section 5 slightly modified, 1 Ref added, LaTeX and uuencoded figures now independent of each other (easier to print). Postscript available http://chimera.roma1.infn.it/index_papers_complex.html