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Setting Limits on Supersymmetry Using Simplified Models
Published on: November 15, 2013
Supersymmetric complexity in the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model
Alessia Annibale1, Andrea Cavagna, Irene Giardina
1Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Roma La Sapienza and Center for Statistical Mechanics and Complexity, INFM Roma 1, Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Roma, Italy.
Abstract:
By using a supersymmetric approach we compute the complexity of the metastable states in the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick spin-glass model. We prove that the supersymmetric complexity is exactly equal to the Legendre transform of the thermodynamic free energy, thus providing a recipe to find the complexity once the free energy is known. Our results suggest that the supersymmetry may be a useful tool for the calculation of the entropy of metastable states in generic glassy systems.
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