THE EXTENDED VARIATIONAL PRINCIPLE FOR MEAN-FIELD, CLASSICAL SPIN SYSTEMS

DOI10.1142/S0129055X05002510zbMATH Open1094.82005arXivmath-ph/0505001MaRDI QIDQ3367658FDOQ3367658

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Publication date: 24 January 2006

Published in: Reviews in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The purpose of this article is to obtain a better understanding of the extended variational principle (EVP). The EVP is a formula for the thermodynamic pressure of a statistical mechanical system as a limit of a sequence of minimization problems. It was developed for disordered mean-field spin systems, spin systems where the underlying Hamiltonian is itself random, and whose distribution is permutation invariant. We present the EVP in the simpler setting of classical mean-field spin systems, where the Hamiltonian is non-random and symmetric. The EVP essentially solves these models. We compare the EVP with another method for mean-field spin systems: the self-consistent mean-field equations. The two approaches lead to dual convex optimization problems. This is a new connection, and it permits a generalization of the EVP.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0505001

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zbMATH Keywords

exchangeabilityextended variational principleclassical spin systems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B20) Exchangeability for stochastic processes (60G09)

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