Central limit theorems for the energy density in the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model (Q2380407)

The authors consider the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick (SK) spin glass model, with Hamiltonian \[ H_N(\sigma)=\frac1{\sqrt N}\sum_{1\leq i,j\leq N}J_{ij}\sigma_i\sigma_j+h\sum_i \sigma_i \] where \(\sigma_i=\pm1\) are Ising spins, \(h\) is the magnetic field and \(J_{ij}\) are i.i.d. standard Gaussian variables (random couplings). One introduces the ``quenched'' Gibbs measure \(P\) on the spin configurations (for a fixed realization of the couplings \(J_{ij}\)) as \[ P(\sigma)=\frac{\exp(\beta H_N(\sigma))}{Z_N} \] and the ``quenched averaged'' law \(\nu\) via \(\nu(A)=\mathbb E\, P(A)\), where \(A\) is a subset of the spin configurations and \(\mathbb E\) denotes average w.r.t the Gaussian coupling distribution. In the high-temperature or replica-symmetric region of small \(\beta\) and/or large \(h\) (or more precisely in a sub-region where the two-replica overlap is sufficiently concentrated, see condition (1.4)) the authors prove quenched central limit theorems for observables like the energy density and the magnetization. The main tool is Stein's method, together with the idea of replicating the system in order to transform ``quenched averaged'' CLTs into ``quenched'' ones (cf. Section 1.3 for a sketch of the idea).