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The Hierarchical Random Energy Model

Statistical Mechanics 2014-09-09 v3 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks

Abstract

We introduce a Random Energy Model on a hierarchical lattice where the interaction strength between variables is a decreasing function of their mutual hierarchical distance, making it a non-mean field model. Through small coupling series expansion and a direct numerical solution of the model, we provide evidence for a spin glass condensation transition similar to the one occuring in the usual mean field Random Energy Model. At variance with mean field, the high temperature branch of the free-energy is non-analytic at the transition point.

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@article{arxiv.0912.3634,
  title  = {The Hierarchical Random Energy Model},
  author = {Michele Castellana and Aurelien Decelle and Silvio Franz and Marc Mezard and Giorgio Parisi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0912.3634},
  year   = {2014}
}
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