Physics – Condensed Matter – Statistical Mechanics
Scientific paper
2001-10-11
Phys. Rev. E 65, 035104(R) (2002).
Physics
Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
4 pages revtex, 1 eps figure
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevE.65.035104
We study analytically the statistics of multiple sign changes in a discrete non-Markovian sequence ,\psi_i=\phi_i+\phi_{i-1} (i=1,2....,n) where \phi_i's are independent and identically distributed random variables each drawn from a symmetric and continuous distribution \rho(\phi). We show that the probability P_m(n) of m sign changes upto n steps is universal, i.e., independent of the distribution \rho(\phi). The mean and variance of the number of sign changes are computed exactly for all n>0. We show that the generating function {\tilde P}(p,n)=\sum_{m=0}^{\infty}P_m(n)p^m\sim \exp[-\theta_d(p)n] for large n where the `discrete' partial survival exponent \theta_d(p) is given by a nontrivial formula, \theta_d(p)=\log[{{\sin}^{-1}(\sqrt{1-p^2})}/{\sqrt{1-p^2}}] for 0\le p\le 1. We also show that in the natural scaling limit when m is large, n is large but but keeping x=m/n fixed, P_m(n)\sim \exp[-n \Phi(x)] where the large deviation function \Phi(x) is computed. The implications of these results for Ising spin glasses are discussed.
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