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In a companion paper we developed the generalized TAP approach for general multi-species spherical mixed $p$-spin models. In this paper, we use it to compute the limit of the free energy at any temperature for all pure multi-species…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-05-04 Eliran Subag

The Sherrington-Kirkpatrick spin glass model has been studied as a source of insight into the statistical mechanics of systems with highly diversified collections of competing low energy states. The goal of this summary is to present some…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-09-29 Michael Aizenman , Robert Sims , Shannon L. Starr

Recently, [DOI:10.1007/s10955-023-03135-1] considered spin glass models with additional conventional order parameters characterizing single-replica properties. These parameters are distinct from the standard order parameter, the overlap,…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-09-23 Hong-Bin Chen

We prove the convergence in distribution of the fluctuations of the free energy of the mixed $p$-spin Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model with non-vanishing $2$-spin component at high enough temperature. The limit is Gaussian, and the…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-08-09 Debapratim Banerjee , David Belius

In order to study certain questions concerning the distribution of the overlap in Sherrington--Kirkpatrick type models, such as the chaos and ultrametricity problems, it seems natural to study the free energy of multiple systems with…

Probability · Mathematics 2009-09-29 Dmitry Panchenko , Michel Talagrand

We use real replicas to investigate stability of thermodynamic homogeneity of the free energy of the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick (SK) model of spin glasses. Within the replica trick with the replica symmetric ansatz we show that the averaged…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-10 V. Janis , L. Zdeborova

We prove a Parisi formula for the limiting free energy of multi-species spherical spin glasses with mixed $p$-spin interactions. The upper bound involves a Guerra-style interpolation and requires a convexity assumption on the model's…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-07-09 Erik Bates , Youngtak Sohn

We study a spin system with both mixed even-spin Sherrington-Kirkpatrick (SK) couplings and Curie-Weiss (CW) interaction. Our main results are: (i) The thermodynamic limit of the free energy is given by a variational formula involving the…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-12-03 Wei-Kuo Chen

This work proves an upper bound for the free energy of the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model and its generalizations in terms of the Thouless-Anderson-Palmer (TAP) energy. The result applies to models with spherical or Ising spins and any mixed…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-04-05 David Belius

These notes give an introduction to the physics of the infinite range version of the Edwards--Anderson model, the so-called Sherrington--Kirkpatrick model. In a first part, I motivate and introduce the Edwards--Anderson and…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-10-18 Alain Billoire

Following an original idea of F. Guerra, in this notes we analyze the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model from different perspectives, all sharing the underlying approach which consists in linking the resolution of the statistical mechanics of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2013-04-10 Adriano Barra , Gino Del Ferraro , Daniele Tantari

In the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick mean field model for spin glasses, we show that the quenched average of the free energy can be expressed through a couple of functional order parameters, in a form very similar to the one found in the frame of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2012-12-13 Francesco Guerra

We calculate the probability distribution of the overlap between a spin glass and a copy of itself in which the bonds are randomly perturbed in varying degrees. The overlap distribution is shown to go to a delta distribution in the…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2008-05-05 T. Aspelmeier

We present results of recent high-statistics Monte Carlo simulations of the Edwards-Anderson Ising spin-glass model in three and four dimensions. The study is based on a non-Boltzmann sampling technique, the multi-overlap algorithm which is…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Wolfhard Janke , Bernd A. Berg , Alain Billoire

We study the free energy of a particle in (arbitrary) high-dimensional Gaussian random potentials with isotropic increments. We prove a computable saddle-point variational representation in terms of a Parisi-type functional for the free…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-02-11 Anton Klimovsky

We continue our presentation of mathematically rigorous results about the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick mean field spin glass model. Here we establish some properties of the distribution of overlaps between real replicas. They are in full…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-06-12 Francesco Guerra

We discuss a general formalism that allows study of transitions over barriers in spin glasses with long-range interactions that contain large but finite number, $N$, of spins. We apply this formalism to the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-30 L. B. Ioffe , D. Sherrington

Using Monte Carlo simulations, we study in detail the overlap distribution for individual samples for several spin-glass models including the infinite-range Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model, short-range Edwards-Anderson models in three and…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2014-10-29 Matthew Wittmann , B. Yucesoy , Helmut G. Katzgraber , J. Machta , A. P. Young

Recently Michel Talagrand gave a rigorous proof of the Parisi formula in the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model. In this paper we build upon the methodology developed by Talagrand and extend his result to the class of SK type models in which the…

Probability · Mathematics 2009-11-10 Dmitry Panchenko

In this paper, we study the high temperature or low connectivity phase of the Viana-Bray model. This is a diluted version of the well known Sherrington-Kirkpatrick mean field spin glass. In the whole replica symmetric region, we obtain a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Francesco Guerra , Fabio Lucio Toninelli