Replica symmetry breaking condition exposed by random matrix calculation of landscape complexity

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DOI10.1007/S10955-007-9386-XzbMATH Open1156.82355arXivcond-mat/0702601OpenAlexW2094633476MaRDI QIDQ2473348FDOQ2473348


Authors: Ian Williams, Y. V. Fyodorov Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 27 February 2008

Published in: Journal of Statistical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We start with a rather detailed, general discussion of recent results of the replica approach to statistical mechanics of a single classical particle placed in a random N(gg1)-dimensional Gaussian landscape and confined by a spherically symmetric potential suitably growing at infinity. Then we employ random matrix methods to calculate the density of stationary points, as well as minima, of the associated energy surface. This is used to show that for a generic smooth, concave confining potentials the condition of the zero-temperature replica symmetry breaking coincides with one signalling that {it both} mean total number of stationary points in the energy landscape, {it and} the mean number of minima are exponential in N. For such systems the (annealed) complexity of minima vanishes cubically when approaching the critical confinement, whereas the cumulative annealed complexity vanishes quadratically. Different behaviour reported in our earlier short communication [Y.V. Fyodorov et al., {it JETP Lett.} {�f 85}, 261, (2007)] was due to non-analyticity of the hard-wall confinement potential. Finally, for the simplest case of parabolic confinement we investigate how the complexity depends on the index of stationary points. In particular, we show that in the vicinity of critical confinement the saddle-points with a positive annealed complexity must be close to minima, as they must have a vanishing {it fraction} of negative eigenvalues in the Hessian.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0702601




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