The Full Replica Symmetry Breaking in the Ising Spin Glass on Random Regular Graph

Journal of Statistical Physics - In this paper, we extend the full replica symmetry breaking scheme to the Ising spin glass on a random regular graph. We propose a new martingale approach, that...     

Magnetization densities as replica parameters: The dilute ferromagnet

In this paper we compute exactly the ground state energy and entropy of the dilute ferromagnetic Ising model. The two thermodynamic quantities are also computed when a magnetic field with random locations is present. The result is reached in the replica approach frame by a class of replica order parameters introduced by Monasson (1998) [5]. The strategy is first illustrated considering the SK model, for which we will show the complete equivalence with the standard replica approach. Then, we apply to the diluted ferromagnetic Ising model with a random located magnetic field, which is mapped into a Potts model.     

Loop effects in the Ising spin glass on the Bethe-like lattices

Equations for the spin glass order in the Ising spin glass model on the Bethe-like lattices with and without small loops are studied. For each lattice, equations are obtained by using and not using the replica method. Within the replica symmetric approximation, equations obtained by the two ways are shown to be identical. To see the effects of the small loops and the replica symmetry breaking, a spin glass order parameter is investigated as a function of the connectivity of the lattices close to the transition temperature. Replica symmetry breaking is enhanced by the existence of small loops.     

Random anisotropy in lattice gas model

We consider a lattice-gas model with infinite-range interaction with site dependent random anisotropy distributed with a Gaussian distribution. The random anisotropy lattice-gas analogous of the random field Ising model is solved exactly using a replica theory. We show that, at finite temperature, the introduction of disorder eliminates completely the phase transition, and destroy the equivalence between real gases and Ising magnets. Whereas at T = 0, the density of occupied sites has a step-like behavior as function of the random anisotropy.     

The Ising--Sherrington-Kirpatrick Model in a Magnetic Field at High Temperature

We study a spin system on a large box with both Ising interaction and Sherrington-Kirpatrick couplings, in the presence of an external field. Our results are: (i) existence of the pressure in the limit of an infinite box. When both Ising and Sherrington-Kirpatrick temperatures are high enough, we prove that: (ii) the value of the pressure is given by a suitable replica symmetric solution, and (iii) the fluctuations of the pressure are of order of the inverse of the square of the volume with a normal distribution in the limit. In this regime, the pressure can be expressed in terms of random field Ising models.     

Critical behaviour of a compressible random Ising model

The critical behaviour of a compressible random Ising model has been studied using the “replica trick” and the renormalization-group ?-expansion technique. Due to compressibility, a “runaway” from the random Ising “Khmel'nitzkii” fixed point is observed.     

Full replica symmetry breaking in <Emphasis Type="Italic">p</Emphasis>-spin-glass-like systems

It is shown that continuously changing the effective number of interacting particles in p-spin-glass-like model allows describing the transition from the full replica symmetry breaking glass solution to stable first replica symmetry breaking glass solution in the case of non-reflective symmetry diagonal operators used instead of Ising spins. As an example, axial quadrupole moments in place of Ising spins are considered and the boundary value \({p_{{c_1}}} \cong 2.5\) is found.     

Reflection scattering matrix of the Ising model in a random boundary magnetic field

The physical properties induced by a quenched surface magnetic field in the Ising model are investigated by means of boundary quantum field theory in replica space. Exact boundary scattering amplitudes are proposed and used to study the averaged quenched correlation functions.     

Absence of Replica Symmetry Breaking in the Transverse and Longitudinal Random Field Ising Model

It is proved that replica symmetry is not broken in the transverse and longitudinal random field Ising model. In this model, the variance of spin overlap of any component vanishes in any dimension almost everywhere in the coupling constant space in the infinite volume limit. The weak Fortuin–Kasteleyn–Ginibre property in this model and the Ghirlanda–Guerra identities in artificial models in a path integral representation based on the Lie–Trotter–Suzuki formula enable us to extend Chatterjee’s proof for the random field Ising model to the quantum model.     

Nature of ergodicity breaking in ising spin glasses as revealed by correlation function spectral properties

In this Letter we address the nature of broken ergodicity in the low temperature phase of Ising spin glasses by examining spectral properties of spin correlation functions C(ij) identical with. We argue that more than one extensive [i.e., O(N)] eigenvalue in this matrix signals replica symmetry breaking. Monte Carlo simulations of the infinite-range Ising spin-glass model, above and below the Almeida-Thouless line, support this conclusion. Exchange Monte Carlo simulations for the short-range model in four dimensions find a single extensive eigenvalue and a large subdominant eigenvalue consistent with droplet model expectations.     

2D quantum gravity from quantum entanglement

In quantum systems with many degrees of freedom the replica method is a useful tool to study the entanglement of arbitrary spatial regions. We apply it in a way that allows them to backreact. As a consequence, they become dynamical subsystems whose position, form, and extension are determined by their interaction with the whole system. We analyze, in particular, quantum spin chains described at criticality by a conformal field theory. Its coupling to the Gibbs' ensemble of all possible subsystems is relevant and drives the system into a new fixed point which is argued to be that of the 2D quantum gravity coupled to this system. Numerical experiments on the critical Ising model show that the new critical exponents agree with those predicted by the formula of Knizhnik, Polyakov, and Zamolodchikov.     

Free energy fluctuations in Ising spin glasses

The sample-to-sample fluctuations of the free energy in finite-dimensional Ising spin glasses are calculated, using the replica method, from higher order terms in the replica number n. It is shown that the Parisi symmetry breaking scheme does not give the correct answers for these higher order terms. A modified symmetry breaking scheme with the same stability is shown to resolve the problem.     

A self-consistent Ornstein-Zernike approximation for the site-diluted Ising model

We propose a theory for the site-diluted Ising model which is an extension to disordered systems of the self-consistent Ornstein-Zernike approximation of Hoye and Stell. By using the replica method in the context of liquid-state theory, we treat the concentration of impurities as an ordinary thermodynamic variable. This approach is not limited to the weak-disorder regime or to the vicinity of the percolation point. A preliminary analysis using series expansion shows that it can predict accurately the dependence of the critical temperature on dilution and can reproduce the nonuniversal behavior of the effective exponents. The theory also gives a reasonable estimate of the percolation threshold.     

Frustrated Blume-Emery-Griffiths model

A generalised integer S Ising spin glass model is analysed using the replica formalism. The bilinear couplings are assumed to have a Gaussian distribution with ferromagnetic mean . Incorporation of a quadrupolar interaction term and a chemical potential leads to a richer phase diagram with transitions of first and second order. The first order transition may be interpreted as a phase separation, and contrary to what has been argued previously, it persists in the presence of disorder. Finally, the stability of the replica symmetric solution with respect to fluctuations in replica space is analysed, and the transition lines are obtained both analytically and numerically. Received 13 January 1997     

Probability distributions for the overlaps and self-correlations of the pure states of ann-vector model

The probability distributions for the overlaps between and the self-correlations of the pure states of the Stanleyn-vector model with infinite-range interactions are derived. These probability distributions represent two new order parameters for the model and are intimately related to the parameters which arise naturally within the replica formalism for the treatment of the corresponding quenched random-bond model. In contrast to then = 1 Ising case, the probability distributions are nontrivial whenn > 1 and an additional parameter for self-correlation has to be introduced.     

Random bond Potts model: The test of the replica symmetry breaking

The averaged spin-spin correlation function squared is calculated for the ferro-magnetic random bond Potts model in two dimensions. The technique being used is the renormalization group plus conformal field theory. The results are of the E-expansion type fixed point calculation, E being the deviation of the central charge (or the number of components) of the Potts model from the Ising model value. Calculations are done both for the replica symmetric and the replica symmetry broken fixed points. The results obtained allow for numerical simulation tests to decide between the two different criticalities of the random bond Potts model.     

Spin-glass complexity

We study the quenched complexity in spin-glass mean-field models satisfying the Becchi-Rouet-Stora-Tyutin supersymmetry. The outcome of such study, consistent with recent numerical results, allows, in principle, to conjecture the absence of any supersymmetric contribution to the complexity in the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model. The same analysis can be applied to any model with a full replica symmetry breaking phase, e.g., the Ising p-spin model below the Gardner temperature. The existence of different solutions, breaking the supersymmetry, is also discussed.     

The link overlap and finite size effects for the 3D Ising spin glass

We study the link overlap between two replicas of an Ising spin glass in three dimensions using the Migdal-Kadanoff approximation and scaling arguments based on the droplet picture. For moderate system sizes, the distribution of the link overlap shows the asymmetric shape and large sample-to-sample variations found in Monte-Carlo simulations and usually attributed to replica symmetry breaking. However, the scaling of the width of the distribution, and the link overlap in the presence of a weak coupling between the two replicas are in agreement with the droplet picture. We also discuss why it is impossible to see the asymptotic droplet-like behaviour for moderate system sizes and temperatures not too far below the critical temperature. Received 25 May 1999     

Fermionic Ising glasses in magnetic transverse field with BCS pairing interaction

We study a fermionic infinited-ranged Ising spin glass with a real space BCS interaction in the presence of an applied transverse field. The problem is formulated in the integral functional formalism where the SU(2) spins are given in terms of bilinear combinations of Grassmann fields. The problem is solved within static approximation and the replica symmetry ansatz combined with previous approaches used to study the critical behavior of the quantum Ising spin glass in a transverse field and the spin glass Heisenberg model with BCS pairing. Our results show that the transverse field has strong effect in the phase boundary of the spin glass phase and the PAIR phase in which there is a long range order corresponding to formations of pairs. The location of the tricritical point in the PAIR phase transition line is also affected.