Modelos de vidros de spin com interações de ordem alta. / Spin glasses models with high-order interactions.

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2000

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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. For p > 2 and small h we show that the typical overlap qt is a discontinuous function of the energy. The size of the jump in qt increases with p and decreases with h, vanishing at finite values of the magnetic field [1]. We study the corrections to the infinite range model for h = 0 and find that the number of local optima increases as the effect of the finite connectivity is considered, and that this increase becomes more pronounced for large p [2]. Furthermore, we study analytically the thermodynamics of this model using the replica method, giving emphasis to the analysis of the transition between the replica symmetric and the one-step of replica symmetry breaking regimes. In particular, we derive analytical conditions for the onset of the continuous transition, as well as for the location of the tricritical point at which the transition between those two regimes becomes discontinuous [3]. As an application of high-order interactions in systems of continuous spins, we study the statistical properties of an ecosystem composed of N species interacting via random Gaussian interactions of order p ≥ 2, and deterministic self-interactions u ≥ 0. For nonzero u the increase of the order of the interactions makes the system more cooperative. We find that for p > 2 there is a threshold value which gives a lower bound to the concentration of the surviving species, preventing then the existence of rare species and, consequently, increasing the robustness of the ecosystem to external perturbations [4].

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vidros de spin spin glasses high-order interactions interações de ordem alta replicator model modelo de replicadores

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