Physics – Condensed Matter – Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
Scientific paper
2000-04-25
Physics
Condensed Matter
Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
28 pages, 9 figures, Research paper sumbitted
Scientific paper
10.1016/S0167-2789(00)00198-6
We consider a class of models describing the dynamics of $N$ Boolean variables, where the time evolution of each depends on the values of $K$ of the other variables. Previous work has considered models with dissipative dynamics. Here we consider time-reversible models, which necessarily have the property that every possible point in the state-space is an element of one and only one cycle. As in the dissipative case, when K is large, typical orbit lengths grow exponentially with N, whereas for small enough K, typical orbit lengths grow much more slowly with N. The numerical data are consistent with the existence of a phase transition at which the average orbit length grows as a power of N at a value of K between 1.4 and 1.7. However, in the reversible models the interplay between the discrete symmetry and quenched randomness can lead to enormous fluctuations of orbit lengths and other interesting features that are unique to the reversible case. The orbits can be classified by their behavior under time reversal. The orbits that transform into themselves under time reversal have properties quite different from those that do not; in particular, a significant fraction of latter-type orbits have lengths enormously longer than orbits that are time reversal-symmetric. For large K and moderate N, the vast majority of points in the state-space are on one of the time reversal singlet orbits, and a random hopping model gives an accurate description of orbit lengths. However, for any finite K, the random hopping approximation fails qualitatively when N is large enough ($N\gg 2^{(2^K)}$).
Coppersmith Susan N.
Kadanoff Leo P.
Zhang Zhitong
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