Physics – Condensed Matter – Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
Scientific paper
2009-06-15
J. Stat. Phys. 139, 375 (2010)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
32 pages, 14 figures. In the revised version the content has been reorganized in order to imporve readability
Scientific paper
10.1007/s10955-010-9938-3
We present a general formalism to make the Replica-Symmetric and Replica-Symmetry-Breaking ansatz in the context of Kikuchi's Cluster Variational Method (CVM). Using replicas and the message-passing formulation of CVM we obtain a variational expression of the replicated free energy of a system with quenched disorder, both averaged and on a single sample, and make the hierarchical ansatz using functionals of functions of fields to represent the messages. We begin to study the method considering the plaquette approximation to the averaged free energy of the Edwards-Anderson model in the paramagnetic Replica-Symmetric phase. In two dimensions we find that the spurious spin-glass phase transition of the Bethe approximation disappears and the paramagnetic phase is stable down to zero temperature in all the three regular 2D lattices. The quantitative estimates of the free energy and of various other quantities improve those of the Bethe approximation. We provide the physical interpretation of the beliefs in the replica-symmetric phase as disorder distributions of the local Hamiltonians. The messages instead do not admit such an interpretation and indeed they cannot be represented as populations in the spin-glass phase at variance with the Bethe approximation.
Lage-castellanos Alejandro
Mulet Roberto
Ricci-Tersenghi Federico
Rizzo Thomas
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