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

DOI10.1088/1742-5468/2008/11/P11011zbMATH Open1456.82386arXiv0807.4386OpenAlexW2009818436MaRDI QIDQ5239447FDOQ5239447

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

Publication date: 22 October 2019

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

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.

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

Recommendations

• Statistical theory of the random ordered phase in a Bethe lattice
• Complexity of random energy landscapes, glass transition, and absolute value of the spectral determinant of random matrices
• Local minima in disordered mean-field ferromagnets
• The Potts model on a Bethe lattice in an external field
• Glass-like transition described by toppling of stability hierarchy

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)

Cites Work

• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Random Fields and Geometry
• On the average number of real roots of a random algebraic equation
• Complexity of random energy landscapes, glass transition, and absolute value of the spectral determinant of random matrices
• Critical points and supersymmetric vacua. I
• Enriched 𝑃-Partitions
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Large Deviations of Extreme Eigenvalues of Random Matrices
• Replica symmetry breaking condition exposed by random matrix calculation of landscape complexity
• Can we predict Λ for the non-SUSY sector of the landscape?
• A hard-sphere model on generalized Bethe lattices: statics
• Random walk generated by random permutations of {1, 2, 3,  ,n+ 1}
• On the distribution of surface extrema in several one- and two-dimensional random landscapes
• Correlations of peaks of Gaussian random fields
• Density of critical points for a Gaussian random function
• Application of the Mayer Method to the Melting Problem
• Statistics of a Two-dimensional Lattice Gas. I

Cited In (2)

• Exactly solvable model with an unusual phase transition: the rolling transition of a pinned Gaussian chain
• Extreme value statistics of correlated random variables: a pedagogical review

This page was built for publication: Phase transition in a random minima model: mean field theory and exact solution on the Bethe lattice

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q5239447)