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Spin glasses occupy a unique place in condensed matter: they freeze collectively while remaining struc-turally disordered, and they exhibit slow, history-dependent dynamics that reflect an exceptionally rug-ged free-energy landscape. This…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-12-25 Naeimeh Tahriri , Vahid Mahdikhah , Jahanfar Abouie , Daryoosh Vashaee

In the Potts spin glass model, inspired by the symmetry argument in [arXiv:2310.06745] for the constrained free energy, we study the free energy with self-overlap correction. Similarly, we simplify the Parisi-type formula, originally an…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-12-27 Hong-Bin Chen

This is the first of a series of three papers about the Elastic Manifold model. This classical model proposes a rich picture due to the competition between the inherent disorder and the smoothing effect of elasticity. In this paper, we…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-10-28 Gerard Ben Arous , Pax Kivimae

The free energy of any system can be written as the supremum of a functional involving an energy term and an entropy term. Surprisingly, the limit free energy of mean-field spin glasses is expressed as an infimum instead, a phenomenon…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-09-06 Jean-Christophe Mourrat

A spin glass is a diluted magnetic material in which the magnetic moments are randomly interacting, with a huge number of metastable states which prevent reaching equilibrium. Spin-glass models are conceptually simple, but require very…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-03-03 Eric Vincent

Spin glasses are magnetic systems exhibiting both quenched disorder and frustration, and have often been cited as examples of `complex systems.' In this talk I review some of the basic notions of spin glass physics, and discuss how some of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-03-28 D. L. Stein

We consider vector spin glass models with self-overlap correction. Since the limit of free energy is an infimum, we use arguments analogous to those for generic models to show the following: 1) the averaged self-overlap converges; 2) the…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-12-27 Hong-Bin Chen

We sketch a new framework for the analysis of disordered systems, in particular mean field spin glasses, which is variational in nature and within the formalism of classical thermodynamics. For concreteness, only the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-02-26 Goetz Kersting , Nicola Kistler , Adrien Schertzer , Marius A. Schmidt

We study the free energy of mean-field multi-species spin glasses with convex covariance function. For such models with $D$ species, the Parisi formula is known to be valid, and expresses the limit free energy as a supremum over monotone…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-08-11 Hong-Bin Chen , Victor Issa , Jean-Christophe Mourrat

We obtain the analogue of the Crisanti-Sommers variational formula for spherical spin glasses with vector spins. This formula is derived from the discrete Parisi variational formula for the limit of the free energy of constrained copies of…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-11-12 Justin Ko

We introduce a hierarchical class of approximations of the random Ising spin glass in $d$ dimensions. The attention is focused on finite clusters of spins where the action of the rest of the system is properly taken into account. At the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-30 R. Baviera , M. Pasquini , M. Serva

We prove that the free energy of any spherical mixed $p$-spin model converges as the dimension $N$ tends to infinity. While the convergence is a consequence of the Parisi formula, the proof we give is independent of the formula and uses the…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-09-28 Eliran Subag

The recent proof by F. Guerra that the Parisi ansatz provides a lower bound on the free energy of the SK spin-glass model could have been taken as offering some support to the validity of the purported solution. In this work we present a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-10 Michael Aizenman , Robert Sims , Shannon L. Starr

In the PDE approach to mean-field spin glasses, it has been observed that the free energy of convex spin glass models could be enriched by adding an extra parameter in its definition, and that the thermodynamic limit of the enriched free…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-04-25 Hong-Bin Chen , Victor Issa

This review presents various aspects of a mean-field spin glass model known as the p-spin spherical spin glass model, which has raised a lot of interest in the study of spin glasses, and also for its possible links with a mean-field theory…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2008-02-03 A. Barrat

We prove that, in mixed $p$-spin models of spin glasses, the location of the ground state is chaotic under small Gaussian perturbations. For the case of even $p$-spin models, this was shown by Chen, Handschy and Lerman [2018]. We rely on a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-12-02 Ronen Eldan

The random energy model (REM) is the simplest spin glass model which exhibits replica symmetry breaking. It is well known since the 80's that its overlaps are non-selfaveraging and that their statistics satisfy the predictions of the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-08-28 Bernard Derrida , Peter Mottishaw

The field theory of a short range spin glass with Gaussian random interactions, is considered near the upper critical dimension six. In the glassy phase, replica symmetry breaking is accompanied with massless Goldstone modes, generated by…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 E. Brézin , C. De Dominicis

Spherical spin glasses are canonical models for smooth random functions in high dimensions. In this review, we survey several interrelated lines of research on their geometric structure. We begin with results concerning critical points and…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-01-23 Eliran Subag

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