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The Kac limit for finite-range spin glasses

Statistical Mechanics 2009-11-10 v2 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

We consider a finite range spin glass model in arbitrary dimension, where the strength of the two-body coupling decays to zero over some distance γ1\gamma^{-1}. We show that, under mild assumptions on the interaction potential, the infinite-volume free energy of the system converges to that of the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick one, in the Kac limit γ0\gamma\to0. This could be a first step toward an expansion around mean field theory, for spin glass systems.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0310356,
  title  = {The Kac limit for finite-range spin glasses},
  author = {Silvio Franz and Fabio Lucio Toninelli},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0310356},
  year   = {2009}
}

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4 pages; references updated, typos corrected

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