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Aging of spherical spin glasses. (English) Zbl 0993.60055

This paper studies spin glass dynamics by using an equation derived from Sherrington-Kirkpatrick’s model which normally conduces to ageing processes. The model here is considerably simpler in the sense that it is spherical and thus has a sphere as its state space. The article mainly analyzes the convergence of the solutions of a stochastic differential system as the order of the system increases and proves the so-called large deviation principle with good rate functions. As pointed out by the authors themselves, the main advantage of such simple model is that it allows to obtain rigorous proofs and a first mathematical understanding of the ageing phenomenon.

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60H10 Stochastic ordinary differential equations (aspects of stochastic analysis)
60K35 Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory
82B44 Disordered systems (random Ising models, random Schrödinger operators, etc.) in equilibrium statistical mechanics
60F10 Large deviations
82C44 Dynamics of disordered systems (random Ising systems, etc.) in time-dependent statistical mechanics
82C31 Stochastic methods (Fokker-Planck, Langevin, etc.) applied to problems in time-dependent statistical mechanics
82C22 Interacting particle systems in time-dependent statistical mechanics
15A18 Eigenvalues, singular values, and eigenvectors
15B52 Random matrices (algebraic aspects)
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