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The state space for the $N$-spin mean field (SK) spin glass--nominally an $N$-cube--is embedded in a low dimensional continuous space in such a way that metastable and stable phases can easily be discerned, a concept of nearness of…

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We study the equilibrium glassy behavior of a multimode random laser model with nonlinear four-body quenched disordered interactions and a global smoothed-cubic constraint on mode intensities. This constraint, which provides a more…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-11-19 Marcello Benedetti , Luca Leuzzi

We use heuristic optimization methods in extensive computations to determine with low systematic error ground state configurations of the mean-field $p$-spin glass model with $p=3$. Here, all possible triplets in a system of $N$ Ising spins…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-08-27 Stefan Boettcher , Ginger E. Lau

We present a non-perturbative, mean-field theory for the Fermi-Pasta-Ulam-Tsingou model with quartic interaction, capturing the quasiperiodic features shown by the system at all energies in the thermodynamic limit. Starting from the true…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-02 Antonio Ponno , Giacomo Gradenigo , Marco Baldovin , Angelo Vulpiani

This paper develops approximate message passing algorithms to optimize multi-species spherical spin glasses. We first show how to efficiently achieve the algorithmic threshold energy identified in our companion work, thus confirming that…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-01-30 Brice Huang , Mark Sellke

The scaling of fluctuations in the distribution of ground-state energies or costs with the system size N for Ising spin glasses is considered using an extensive set of simulations with the Extremal Optimization heuristic across a range of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-05-20 Stefan Boettcher

We study statistical properties of 3D classical spin glass layer of certain width and infinite length. The 3D spin glass is represented as an ensemble of disordered 1D spatial spin-chains (SSC) where interactions are random between…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-07-13 A. S. Gevorkyan , H. G. Abajyan , E. A. Ayryan

We discuss an effective spin-glass Hamiltonian which can be used to study the glassy-like dynamics observed in the metastable states of the Hamiltonian Mean Field (HMF) model. By means of the Replica formalism, we were able to find a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Alessandro Pluchino , Vito Latora , Andrea Rapisarda

Hierarchical spin-glasses are Ising spin models defined by recursively coupling together two equally-sized sub-systems. In this work a new hierarchical spin system is introduced wherein the sub-systems are recursively coupled together…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-04-05 Gavin S Hartnett

Mean-field models of glasses that present a random first order transition exhibit highly non-trivial fluctuations. Building on previous studies that focused on the critical scaling regime, we here obtain a fully quantitative framework for…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-08-09 Giampaolo Folena , Giulio Biroli , Patrick Charbonneau , Yi Hu , Francesco Zamponi

In the present paper we have analysed a fermionic infinite-ranged quantum Heisenberg spin glass (s=1/2) with a BCS coupling in real space in the presence of an applied magnetic field. This model has been obtained by tracing out the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. G. Magalhaes , A. A. Schmidt

We include p-spin interactions in a spherical version of a soluble mean-field spin-glass model proposed by van Hemmen. Due to the simplicity of the solutions, which do not require the use of the replica trick, we are able to carry out a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2011-11-09 P. T. Muzy , A. P. Vieira , S. R. Salinas

The Ghatak-Sherrington (GS) spin glass model is a random probability measure defined on the configuration space $\{0,\pm1,\pm2,\ldots, \pm \mathcal{S} \}^N$ with system size $N$ and $\mathcal{S}\ge1$ finite. This generalizes the classical…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-04-03 Yueqi Sheng , Qiang Wu

We study the large $N$-dimensional limit of the Hessian spectrum at the global minimum of some subclasses of the spherical mixed $p$-spin models. Specifically, we show that its empirical spectral measure converges in probability to a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-07-29 Hao Xu , Haoran Yang

We introduce efficient algorithms for approximate sampling from symmetric Gibbs distributions on the sparse random (hyper)graph. The examples we consider include (but are not restricted to) important distributions on spin systems and…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Charilaos Efthymiou

We study mean-field spin glass models with general vector spins and convex covariance function. For those models, it is known that the limit of the free energy can be written as the supremum of a functional, this is the celebrated Parisi…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-10-14 Victor Issa

We present a numerical study of an Ising spin glass with hierarchical interactions - the hierarchical Edwards-Anderson model with an external magnetic field (HEA). We study the model with Monte Carlo (MC) simulations in the mean-field (MF)…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-03-10 Michele Castellana , Giorgio Parisi

In this paper we study the Parisi variational problem for mixed $p$-spin glasses with Ising spins. Our starting point is a characterization of Parisi measures whose origin lies in the first order optimality conditions for the Parisi…

Probability · Mathematics 2017-07-03 Aukosh Jagannath , Ian Tobasco

We investigate the balanced $M=4$, $p=4$ spin-glass model for a one-dimensional long-range proxy for the finite dimensional short-range $p$-spin glass model to examine the nature of the glass transition beyond mean-field theory. We perform…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-04-20 Prerak Gupta , Auditya Sharma , Bharadwaj Vedula , J. Yeo , M. A. Moore

We investigate the complexity of the Hamiltonian in the pure $p$-spin spin glass model accompanied with a polynomial-type potential on $\mathbb{R}^N$. In this Hamiltonian, the Gaussian field is anisotropic, and the potential lacks…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-02-12 Wei-Kuo Chen , Te-Lun Lu , Arnab Sen