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2021 On the Almeida-Thouless transition line in the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model with centered Gaussian external field
Wei-Kuo Chen
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Electron. Commun. Probab. 26: 1-9 (2021). DOI: 10.1214/21-ECP439

Abstract

We study the phase transition of the free energy in the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick mean-field spin glass model with centered Gaussian external field. We show that the corresponding Almeida-Thouless line is the correct transition curve that distinguishes between the replica symmetric and replica symmetry breaking solutions in the Parisi formula.

Funding Statement

Partly supported by NSF grant DMS-17-52184.

Acknowledgments

The author thanks the anonymous referees for some helpful comments regarding the presentation of this paper. Special thanks are due to Si Tang for running the simulations in Figures 1 and 2.

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Wei-Kuo Chen. "On the Almeida-Thouless transition line in the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model with centered Gaussian external field." Electron. Commun. Probab. 26 1 - 9, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1214/21-ECP439

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Received: 11 March 2021; Accepted: 3 November 2021; Published: 2021
First available in Project Euclid: 6 December 2021

Digital Object Identifier: 10.1214/21-ECP439

Subjects:
Primary: 60K35 , 82B44

Keywords: Almeida-Thouless line , Parisi formula , Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model

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