Exactly solvable model of inergodic spin glass

TL;DR

This paper introduces an exactly solvable mean-field model of a spin glass with combined ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic interactions, revealing a phase transition to an ergodic spin glass phase with metastable states and analyzing their thermodynamic properties.

Contribution

It presents a new solvable model that captures the phase transition and metastable states in a spin glass with mixed interactions, linking nonequilibrium processes to thermodynamic parameters.

Findings

Phase transition into inergodic spin glass phase with metastable states.

Thermodynamic properties of metastable states at T=0 and near transition.

Relations between nonequilibrium processes and metastable state parameters.

Abstract

A mean-field model of Ising spin glass with the Hamiltonian being a sum of the infinite-range ferromagnetic and random antiferromagnetic interactions is studied. It is shown that this model has phase transition in external magnetic field into inergodic spin glass phase with a number of metastable states. The thermodynamic properties of metastable states are studied at T=0 and near the transition. The relations between the characteristics of slow nonequilibrium processes in spin glass phase (such as hysteresis loop form, thermo-remanent and isothermal remanent magnetizations, field-cooled and zero-field-cooled thermodynamic quantities) and thermodynamic parameters of metastable states are established.