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Mean-field theory of the Potts glass
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Randomly interacting p-state Potts spins may freeze into a Potts-glass phase in which the Potts symmetry is unbroken, on the average. The mean-field theory of this phase transition is presented. Unlike the spin-glass case, there exist two distinct Potts-glass phases that differ in the nature of the correlations among the many degenerate ground states of the system. For p>4, the transition from the disordered phase is unusual: The freezing occurs discontinuously but without latent heat. Similar results hold for mean-field quadrupolar-glass models.
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- Authors
- Gross, D. J., Kanter, I., & Sompolinsky, H.
- Venue
- Physical Review Letters
- Publisher
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Published
- 1985-07-15
- Volume
- 55
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 304-307
- ISSN
- 0031-9007 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1990767775
- Cited by
- 377
- References
- 18
- FWCI
- 7.67
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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