Phase transition in a random minima model: mean field theory and exact solution on the Bethe lattice

DOI10.1088/1742-5468/2008/11/P11011MaRDI QIDQ5239447zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Peter Sollich, Satya N. Majumdar, Alan J. Bray

Publication date 22 October 2019

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0807.4386

zbMATH Keywords

classical phase transitions (theory)energy landscapes (theory)phase diagrams (theory)

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Random walks, random surfaces, lattice animals, etc. in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B41) Sums of independent random variables; random walks (60G50) Exactly solvable models; Bethe ansatz (82B23) Phase transitions (general) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B26) Disordered systems (random Ising models, random Schrödinger operators, etc.) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B44)

Abstract: We consider the number and distribution of minima in random landscapes defined on non-Euclidean lattices. Using an ensemble where random landscapes are reweighted by a fugacity factor $z$ for each minimum they contain, we construct first a `two-box' mean field theory. This exhibits an ordering phase transition at $zc=2$ above which one box contains an extensive number of minima. The onset of order is governed by an unusual order parameter exponent $$, motivating us to study the same model on the Bethe lattice. Here we find from an exact solution that for any connectivity $mu+1>2$ there is an ordering transition with a conventional mean field order parameter exponent $$, but with the region where this behaviour is observable shrinking in size as $1/mu$ in the mean field limit of large $mu$. We show that the behaviour in the transition region can also be understood directly within a mean field approach, by making the assignment of minima `soft'. Finally we demonstrate, in the simplest mean field case, how the analysis can be generalized to include both maxima and minima. In this case an additional first order phase transition appears, to a landscape in which essentially all sites are either minima or maxima.

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