Convergence of clock processes and aging in Metropolis dynamics of a truncated REM

DOI10.1007/S00023-015-0442-9MaRDI QIDQ261966zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Publication date 29 March 2016

Published in Annales Henri Poincaré (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1402.0388

aging clock processes glassy systems random energy models

Stochastic methods (Fokker-Planck, Langevin, etc.) applied to problems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C31) Dynamics of random walks, random surfaces, lattice animals, etc. in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C41) Statistical mechanics of random media, disordered materials (including liquid crystals and spin glasses) (82D30)

Abstract: We study the aging behavior of a truncated version of the Random Energy Model evolving under Metropolis dynamics. We prove that the natural time-time correlation function defined through the overlap function converges to an arcsine law distribution function, almost surely in the random environment and in the full range of time scales and temperatures for which such a result can be expected to hold. This establishes that the dynamics ages in the same way as Bouchaud's REM-like trap model, thus extending the universality class of the latter model. The proof relies on a clock process convergence result of a new type where the number of summands is itself a clock process. This reflects the fact that the exploration process of Metropolis dynamics is itself an aging process, governed by its own clock. Both clock processes are shown to converge to stable subordinators below certain critical lines in their time-scale and temperature domains, almost surely in the random environment.

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Many experiments show that glassy systems are never in equilibrium states on laboratory time scales; their dynamics is very slow as time elapses. It is called aging and can be described for example by Bouchaud's trap models which give the long-time behaviour of spin glass dynamics in terms of thermally activated barrier crossing in a state space reduced to the configurations of lowest energy. A Glauber dynamics is one of the main examples of microscopic systems behaviour that is described by trap models. However, there is a main question: Which Glauber dynamics should be taken into account: Metropolis, heath-bath dynamics or random hopping dynamics? Beyond model-based analysis, there is a second possible approach called ``clock process, linking aging to the arcsine law for subordinators through the asymptotic behaviour of a partial sum process. The whole paper is devoted to considerations of possible usage of this approach by the introduction of some expansions, especially by the front-end and back-end clock processes. They are useful to prove some theorems in this paper, which is organized as follows. After the introduction in Section 1, we have a presentation of random graph properties of the random energy model landscape as a consequence of the proposed approach. Section 3 gives a formal definition of the front-end and back-end clock processes. In Section 4, there is an analysis of the increments of the front-end process \(\hat{S}_n\), especially its upper bound of the tail distribution. A similar analysis is carried out in Section 5 for the increments of the back-end clock process \(\hat{S}^\dagger_n\); an explicit expression is also obtained for the distribution of the sojourn times. The next section shows the attributes of the symmetric random walk. Sections 7--9 show other necessary proofs.

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