Broken Replica Symmetry Bounds in the Mean Field Spin Glass Model

 By using a simple interpolation argument, in previous work we have proven the existence of the thermodynamic limit, for mean field disordered models, including the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model, and the Derrida p-spin model. Here we extend this argument in order to compare the limiting free energy with the expression given by the Parisi Ansatz, and including full spontaneous replica symmetry breaking. Our main result is that the quenched average of the free energy is bounded from below by the value given in the Parisi Ansatz, uniformly in the size of the system. Moreover, the difference between the two expressions is given in the form of a sum rule, extending our previous work on the comparison between the true free energy and its replica symmetric Sherrington-Kirkpatrick approximation. We give also a variational bound for the infinite volume limit of the ground state energy per site. Received: 6 May 2002 / Accepted: 6 September 2002 Published online: 13 January 2003     

Fluctuations in Derrida's random energy and generalized random energy models

The fluctuations of the finite-size corrections to the free energy per site of the random energy model (REM) and the generalized random energy model (GREM) are investigated. Almost sure behavior for the corrections of order (logN)/N is given. We also prove convergence in distribution for the corrections of order 1/N.     

The Riemann Surface of the Chiral Potts Model Free Energy Function

In a recent paper we derived the free energy or partition function of the N-state chiral Potts model by using the infinite lattice inversion relation method, together with a non-obvious extra symmetry. This gave us three recursion relations for the partition function per site T _pq of the infinite lattice. Here we use these recursion relations to obtain the full Riemann surface of T _pq . In terms of the t _p ,t _q variables, it consists of an infinite number of Riemann sheets, each sheet corresponding to a point on a (2N–1)-dimensional lattice (for N>2). The function T _pq is meromorphic on this surface: we obtain the orders of all the zeros and poles. For N odd, we show that these orders are determined by the usual inversion and rotation relations (without the extra symmetry), together with a simple linearity ansatz. For N even, this method does not give the orders uniquely, but leaves only [(N+4)/4] parameters to be determined.     

The dependence of exchange and coulomb energies on wave functions of the interacting systems

First-order energies have been calculated for the He₂ system using a number of He wave functions. The convergence to the Hartree-Fock limit has been studied and a two-term expansion in Slater orbitals gives about 98 per cent of this limit. The effect of correlation has been examined by adding s′² and p ² configurations to the wave function and a change of approximately 10 per cent in the effective first-order energy has been noted.     

Affine Toda Field Theory as a 3-Dimensional Integrable System

The affine Toda field theory is studied as a 2+1-dimensional system. The third dimension appears as the discrete space dimension, corresponding to the simple roots in the A _N affine root system, enumerated according to the cyclic order on the A _N affine Dynkin diagram. We show that there exists a natural discretization of the affine Toda theory. The quantum analog of the τ-variables is found. The thermodynamic Bethe ansatz of the affine Toda system is studied in the limit L,N→∞. It is shown that the free energy of the systems grows proportionally to the volume. Received: 23 May 1996 / Accepted: 22 August 1996     

Condensation in Nongeneric Trees

We study nongeneric planar trees and prove the existence of a Gibbs measure on infinite trees obtained as a weak limit of the finite volume measures. It is shown that in the infinite volume limit there arises exactly one vertex of infinite degree and the rest of the tree is distributed like a subcritical Galton-Watson tree with mean offspring probability m<1. We calculate the rate of divergence of the degree of the highest order vertex of finite trees in the thermodynamic limit and show it goes like (1−m)N where N is the size of the tree. These trees have infinite spectral dimension with probability one but the spectral dimension calculated from the ensemble average of the generating function for return probabilities is given by 2β−2 if the weight w _n of a vertex of degree n is asymptotic to n ^−β .     

Superstring on pp-wave orbifold from large-N quiver gauge theory

We extend the proposal of Berenstein, Maldacena and Nastase to the Type IIB superstring propagating on a pp-wave over the R ⁴/Z _k orbifold. We show that first-quantized free string theory is described correctly by the large-N, fixed gauge coupling limit of [U(N)] ^k quiver gauge theory. We propose a precise map between gauge theory operators and string states for both untwisted and twisted sectors. We also compute leading-order perturbative correction to the anomalous dimensions of these operators. The result is in agreement with the value deduced from the string energy spectrum, thus substantiating our proposed operator-state map. Received: 14 March 2002 / Published online: 5 July 2002     

Nucleation and stability of defect clusters: New energetic model in the case of substituted wustites

Abstract

For wüstite Fe_1?z O (z < 0.08) an energetic model accounts for the stability of cubic defect clusters (m/n) which are partly ordered in the crystal. The Gibbs energy G_T (N) associated with clusters, including their distorted envelope, is expressed as a sum of a volume term in N ³ and of surface terms in N ⁴; N is the number of bonds characteristic of the cluster size. In the case of a (10/4) type cluster, this energy is negative and minimum for N_m ranging between 4 and 5, when the volume and surface energies range between specific values. Using simple assumptions, a volume energy ?0.80 eV per vacancy is found in accordance with the value of stabilization energy calculated by theorists for the (10/4) cluster. The substitution of Fe²⁺ by Ca²⁺ should lead to a decrease of cluster size; this has been recently suggested by neutron diffraction studies.     

Fluctuations in the Composite Regime of a Disordered Growth Model

 We continue to study a model of disordered interface growth in two dimensions. The interface is given by a height function on the sites of the one-dimensional integer lattice and grows in discrete time: (1) the height above the site x adopts the height above the site to its left if the latter height is larger, (2) otherwise, the height above x increases by 1 with probability p _x . We assume that p _x are chosen independently at random with a common distribution F, and that the initial state is such that the origin is far above the other sites. Provided that the tails of the distribution F at its right edge are sufficiently thin, there exists a nontrivial composite regime in which the fluctuations of this interface are governed by extremal statistics of p _x . In the quenched case, the said fluctuations are asymptotically normal, while in the annealed case they satisfy the appropriate extremal limit law. Received: 6 November 2001 / Accepted: 8 April 2002 Published online: 6 August 2002     

A Quantum Mechanical Gauge Model and a Possible Dynamical Solution of the StrongCPProblem

A model describing a quantum mechanical particle on a circle with minimal electromagnetic interaction with a space independent vector potential, and with a potential −M cos(?−θ_M) so that it mimics the massive Schwinger model, is discussed as a prototype of mechanisms and infrared structures which characterize gauge quantum field theories in positive gauges and QCD in particular. The functional integral representation in terms of the field variables which enter in the Lagrangean displays non-standard features, like a complex functional measure (failure of Nelson positivity), a crucial rôle of the boundary conditions, and the decomposition intoθsectors already in finite volume. In the infinite volume limit, one essentially recovers the standard picture whenM=0 (“massless fermions”), but one meets substantial differences forM≠0: for generic boundary conditions, independently of the Lagrangean angle of the topological term, the infinite volume limit selects the sector withθ=θ_Mand provides a natural “dynamical” solution of the strong CP problem. In comparison with previous approaches, the strategy discussed here allows us to exploit the consequences of theθdependence of the free energy density, with a unique minimum atθ=θ_M.     

The validity of perturbation theory for the O(N) non-linear sigma models

Recently it has been claimed that ordinary perturbation theory (OPT) gives incorrect weak coupling expansions for lattice O(N) non-linear sigma models in the infinite volume limit, and in particular that the two-dimensional non-abelian models are not asymptotically free, contrary to previous findings. Here it is argued that the problem occurs only for one-dimensional infinite lattices, and that in general, OPT gives correct expansions if physical quantities are first computed on a finite lattice, and the infinite volume limit is taken at the end. In one dimension the expansion is sensitive to boundary conditions because of the severe infrared behavior, but this is not expected to happen in higher dimensions. It is concluded that spin configurations which are far from the perturbative vacuum have too small a measure in the path integral to invalidate OPT, even though they are energetically allowed for non-zero values of the coupling.     

On Convergence to Equilibrium Distribution,I.¶The Klein–Gordon Equation with Mixing

Consider the Klein–Gordon equation (KGE) in ℝ ⁿ , n≥ 2, with constant or variable coefficients. We study the distribution μ _t of the random solution at time t∈ℝ. We assume that the initial probability measure μ₀ has zero mean, a translation-invariant covariance, and a finite mean energy density. We also assume that μ₀ satisfies a Rosenblatt- or Ibragimov–Linnik-type mixing condition. The main result is the convergence of μ _t to a Gaussian probability measure as t→∞ which gives a Central Limit Theorem for the KGE. The proof for the case of constant coefficients is based on an analysis of long time asymptotics of the solution in the Fourier representation and Bernstein's “room-corridor” argument. The case of variable coefficients is treated by using an “averaged” version ofthe scattering theory for infinite energy solutions, based on Vainberg's results on local energy decay. Received: 4 January 2001 / Accepted: 2 July 2001     

The High Temperature Region of the Viana–Bray Diluted Spin Glass Model

In this paper, we study the high temperature or low connectivity phase of the Viana–Bray model in the absence of magnetic field. This is a diluted version of the well known Sherrington–Kirkpatrick mean field spin glass. In the whole replica symmetric region, we obtain a complete control of the system, proving annealing for the infinite volume free energy and a central limit theorem for the suitably rescaled fluctuations of the multi-overlaps. Moreover, we show that free energy fluctuations, on the scale 1/N, converge in the infinite volume limit to a non-Gaussian random variable, whose variance diverges at the boundary of the replica-symmetric region. The connection with the fully connected Sherrington– Kirkpatrick model is discussed.     

On the asymptotic exactness of the Bogoliubov approximation for many boson systems

The Bogoliubov approximation for many boson systems consists in replacing the field operatorsa ₀ anda ₀ ⁺ byc-numbers, to be determined by an extremum condition. Here we formulate the approximation in terms of coherent states of the condensed particles, and prove that for reasonable interactions it gives the exact values of the thermodynamical functions in the infinite volume limit.Research supported in part by the National Science Foundation.     

Statistical mechanics of systems of unbounded spins

We develop the statistical mechanics of unboundedn-component spin systems on the latticeZ ^v interacting via potentials which are superstable and strongly tempered. We prove the existence and uniqueness of the infinite volume free energy density for a wide class of boundary conditions. The uniqueness of the equilibrium state (whose existence is established in general) is then proven for one component ferromagnetic spins whose free energy is differentiable with respect to the magnetic field.     

Periodic and Quasi-Periodic Orbits¶for the Standard Map

We consider both periodic and quasi-periodic solutions for the standard map, and we study the corresponding conjugating functions, i.e. the functions conjugating the motions to trivial rotations. We compare the invariant curves with rotation numbers ω satisfying the Bryuno condition and the sequences of periodic orbits with rotation numbers given by their convergents ω _N = p _N /q _N . We prove the following results for N→ ∞: (1) for rotation numbers ω _N N we study the radius of convergence of the conjugating functions and we find lower bounds on them, which tend to a limit which is a lower bound on the corresponding quantity for ω; (2) the periodic orbits consist of points which are more and more close to the invariant curve with rotation number ω; (3) such orbits lie on analytical curves which tend uniformly to the invariant curve. Received: 14 December 2001 / Accepted: 16 March 2002?Published online: 2 October 2002     

Spin glasses on Bethe lattices for large coordination number

We study spin glasses on random lattices with finite connectivity. In the infinite connectivity limit they reduce to the Sherrington Kirkpatrick model. In this paper we investigate the expansion around the high connectivity limit. Within the replica symmetry breaking scheme at two steps, we compute the free energy at the first order in the expansion in inverse powers of the average connectivity (z), both for the fixed connectivity and for the fluctuating connectivity random lattices. It is well known that the coefficient of the 1/z correction for the free energy is divergent at low temperatures if computed in the one step approximation. We find that this annoying divergence becomes much smaller if computed in the framework of the more accurate two steps breaking. Comparing the temperature dependance of the coefficients of this divergence in the replica symmetric, one step and two steps replica symmetry breaking, we conclude that this divergence is an artefact due to the use of a finite number of steps of replica symmetry breaking. The 1/z expansion is well defined also in the zero temperature limit. Received 15 July 2002 Published online 31 December 2002     

A FT-IR absorption analysis of vibrational properties of water encaged in NaA zeolites: evidence of a “structure maker” role of zeolitic surface

Linear polyisoprenes having dimethylamine end groups were prepared by high vacuum anionic polymerization techniques using 3-dimethylaminopropyllithium as the initiator. The amine group was reacted with 2-cholesteryl-2-oxo-1,3,2-dioxaphospholane to provide polymer chains having end zwitterionic groups chemically connected with cholesterol. The association behavior of these end-functionalized polymers was studied in cyclohexane by low angle laser light scattering, dynamic light scattering, and viscometry. The aggregation numbers, N _w were found to decrease by increasing the molecular weight of the precursor polymer, due to excluded volume repulsions. The ability of cholesterol to form liquid crystal mesophases facilitated the association process leading to higher N _w values. The hydrodynamic behavior of the aggregates was similar to that of star polymers. The dependence of the N _w values on the molecular weight of the base polymer, the polydispersity of the associates and the absence of critical micelle concentration, cmc are compatible with the linear head-packing model. Received 29 April 2002 and Received in final form 13 November 2002 Published online: 11 March 2003     

Polyyne bending frequencies: why they vary with the square of the harmonic in the infinite limit

The vibrational frequencies of several linear polyynes HC _N H, HC _N I and IC _N I, for even-valued N up to 60, have been obtained using computational quantum chemistry. The bending normal modes have the appearance of classical transverse normal modes of a vibrating string fixed at both ends, for which the frequencies vary with the first power of the harmonic. Our calculations, however, reveal that in the limit of infinite chain length and infinite mass on the ends of the ‘molecular string’, the bending frequencies vary with the square of the harmonic, at all levels of theory. A derivation is presented to explain the discrepancy.