Christof Külske

Metastates in disordered mean-field models: Random field and hopfield models

AbstractWe rigorously investigate the size dependence of disordered mean-field models with finite local spin space in terms of metastates. Thereby we provide an illustration of the framework of metastates for systems of randomly competing Gibbs measures. In particular we consider the thermodynamic limit of the empirical metastate

A RIGOROUS RENORMALIZATION GROUP METHOD FOR INTERFACES IN RANDOM MEDIA

1/N\sum\nolimits_{n - 1}^N {\delta _{\mu _\eta (\eta )} }

There Are No Nice Interfaces in ( 2 + 1)-Dimensional SOS Models in Random Media

, whereμn(η) is the Gibbs measure in the finite volume {1,…,n} and the frozen disorder variableη is fixed. We treat explicitly the Hopfield model with finitely many patterns and the Curie-Weiss random field Ising model. In both examples in the phase transition regime the empirical metastate is dispersed for largeN. Moreover, it does not converge for a.e.η, but rather in distribution, for whose limits we given explicit expressions. We also discuss another notion of metastates, due to Aizenman and Wehr.

Low-Temperature Dynamics of the Curie-Weiss Model: Periodic Orbits, Multiple Histories, and Loss of Gibbsianness

Abstract. Can the joint measures of quenched disordered lattice spin models (with finite range) on the product of spin-space and disorder-space be represented as (suitably generalized) Gibbs measures of an “annealed system”? - We prove that there is always a potential (depending on both spin and disorder variables) that converges absolutely on a set of full measure w.r.t. the joint measure (“weak Gibbsianness”). This “positive” result is surprising when contrasted with the results of a previous paper [K6], where we investigated the measure of the set of discontinuity points of the conditional expectations (investigation of “a.s. Gibbsianness”). In particular we gave natural “negative” examples where this set is even of measure one (including the random field Ising model). Further we discuss conditions giving the convergence of vacuum potentials and conditions for the decay of the joint potential in terms of the decay of the disorder average over certain quenched correlations. We apply them to various examples. From this one typically expects the existence of a potential that decays superpolynomially outside a set of measure zero. Our proof uses a martingale argument that allows to cut (an infinite-volume analogue of) the quenched free energy into local pieces, along with generalizations of Kozlovs constructions.

Gibbs-non-Gibbs properties for n-vector lattice and mean-field models

We prove the existence Gibbs states describing rigid interfaces in a disordered solid-on-solid (SOS) for low temperatures and for weak disorder in dimension D ≥ 4. This extends earlier results for hierarchical models to the more realistic models and proves a long-standing conjecture. The proof is based on the renormalization group method of Bricmont and Kupiainen originally developed for the analysis of low-temperature phases of the random field Ising model. In a broader context, we generalize this method to a class of systems with non-compact single-site state space.

Continuous spin mean-field models: Limiting kernels and Gibbs properties of local transforms

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