Matching between typical fluctuations and large deviations in disordered systems: application to the statistics of the ground state energy in the SK spin-glass model

DOI10.1088/1742-5468/2010/02/P02023MaRDI QIDQ3301144zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Publication date 11 August 2020

Published in Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0912.2875

Statistical mechanics of random media, disordered materials (including liquid crystals and spin glasses) (82D30)

Abstract: For the statistics of global observables in disordered systems, we discuss the matching between typical fluctuations and large deviations. We focus on the statistics of the ground state energy

E_{0}

in two types of disordered models : (i) for the directed polymer of length

N

in a two-dimensional medium, where many exact results exist (ii) for the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick spin-glass model of

N

spins, where various possibilities have been proposed. Here we stress that, besides the behavior of the disorder-average

E_{0}^{a v} (N)

and of the standard deviation

D e l t a E_{0} (N) s i m N^{o m e g a_{f}}

that defines the fluctuation exponent

o m e g a_{f}

, it is very instructive to study the full probability distribution

P i (u)

of the rescaled variable

u = f r a c E_{0} (N) - E_{0}^{a v} (N) D e l t a E_{0} (N)

: (a) numerically, the convergence towards

P i (u)

is usually very rapid, so that data on rather small sizes but with high statistics allow to measure the two tails exponents

e t a_{p m}

defined as

l n P i (u o p m i n f t y) s i m - | u |^{e t a_{p m}}

. In the generic case

1 < e t a_{p m} < + i n f t y

, this leads to explicit non-trivial terms in the asymptotic behaviors of the moments

of the partition function when the combination

[| n | N^{o m e g a_{f}}]

becomes large (b) simple rare events arguments can usually be found to obtain explicit relations between

e t a_{p m}

and

o m e g a_{f}

. These rare events usually correspond to 'anomalous' large deviation properties of the generalized form

R (w_{p m} = f r a c E_{0} (N) - E_{0}^{a v} (N) N^{k a p p a_{p m}}) s i m e^{- N^{h o_{p m}} {c a l R}_{p m} (w_{p m})}

(the 'usual' large deviations formalism corresponds to

k a p p a_{p m} = 1 = h o_{p m}

).

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