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Complexity and marginal states in mean-field glasses

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Abstract Book of the XXIII IUPAP International Conference on Statistical Physics, Genova, Italy, (9-13 July 2007)

Abstract

We study mean-field systems whose free-energy landscape is dominated by marginally stable states. We describe them in terms of the two-group replica symmetry-breaking scheme, presenting its physical interpretation and establishing the relation to the cavity method and to the counting of solutions in the Thouless-Anderson-Palmer approach. We show how these methods all incorporate the presence of a soft mode in the free-energy landscape and interpret the occurring order-parameter functions in terms of correlations between the soft mode and the local magnetizations. The general formalism is applied to the prototypical case of the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick-model.

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