Physics – Condensed Matter – Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
Scientific paper
2007-10-02
Physics
Condensed Matter
Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
20 pages
Scientific paper
10.1088/0953-8984/20/24/244132
Motivated by short-range Ising spin glasses, we review some rigorous results and their consequences for the relation between the number/nature of equilibrium pure states and nonequilibrium dynamics. Two of the consequences for spin glass dynamics following a deep quench to a temperature with broken spin flip symmetry are: (1) Almost all initial configurations lie on the boundary between the basins of attraction of multiple pure states. (2) Unless there are uncountably many pure states with almost all pairs having zero overlap, there can be no equilibration to a pure state as time goes to infinity. We discuss the relevance of these results to the difficulty of equilibration of spin glasses. We also review some results concerning the ``nature vs. nurture'' problem of whether the large-time behavior of both ferromagnets and spin glasses following a deep quench is determined more by the initial configuration or by the dynamics realization.
Newman Charles M.
Stein Daniel L.
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