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Landscape statistics of the p-spin Ising model

Viviane M de Oliveira and J F Fontanari

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The statistical properties of the local optima (metastable states) of the infinite-range Ising spin glass with p-spin interactions in the presence of an external magnetic field h are investigated analytically. The average number of optima as well as the typical overlap between pairs of identical optima are calculated for general p. Similarly to the thermodynamic order parameter, for p > 2 and small h, the typical overlap is a discontinuous function of the energy. The size of the jump in increases with p and decreases with h, vanishing at finite values of the magnetic field.


PACS

05.50.+q Lattice theory and statistics (Ising, Potts, etc.)

75.10.Hk Classical spin models

75.10.Nr Spin-glass and other random models

MSC

82D30 Random media, disordered materials (including liquid crystals and spin glasses)

82B20 Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs

Subjects

Condensed matter: electrical, magnetic and optical

Statistical physics and nonlinear systems

Dates

Issue 24 (21 December 1997)

Received 4 July 1997



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