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1Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Na Slovance 2, CZ-18221 Praha, Czech Republic. janis@fzu.cz
Abstract:
We investigate the low-temperature equilibrium state of the p-state mean-field Potts glass. It is the presently believed that there is a temperature interval T(2) < T < T(c) within which the equilibrium state for p > p(*) approximately 2.82 is described by the cavity method corresponding to the first level of replica-symmetry breaking. We demonstrate that this locally stable solution is globally unstable and that true equilibrium in the region of instability of the replica-symmetric solution (T < T(c)), marked by the highest free energy, is a state displaying a continuous replica-symmetry breaking.
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