Sherington-Kirkpatrick Hamiltonian

cosmos 26th March 2018 at 5:12pm
Spin glass

aka Sherington-Kirkpatrick model

Introduced in Solvable Model of a Spin-Glass, it is an infinite-range version of the EA Hamiltonian; equivalently a Spin glass in infinite dimensions. It's exact solution agrees with the Mean field theory solution. Note that the interactions are now between all pairs. The Hamiltonian is:

HJ=1N1ijNJijσiσjh1iNσi\mathcal{H}_\mathcal{J}=-\frac{1}{\sqrt{N}} \sum\limits_{1 \leq i \leq j \leq N} J_{ij} \sigma_i \sigma_j - h \sum\limits_{1 \leq i \leq N} \sigma_i

for a system of NN spins.

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The Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model and its diluted version I - Dmitry Panchenko - Dmitry Panchenko

Solution via the Replica method

Phase transition

A Phase transition was found:

Negative entropy

if one chooses the EA order parameter to describe the broken symmetry of the low-temperature spin glass phase, the entropy becomes negative at very low temperature. This is problematic and is solved by the introduction of different order parameters, which cause Replica symmetry breaking.

Replica symmetry breaking