Rigorous solution of a mean field spin glass model

Abstract

A separable spin glass model whose exchange integral takes the form Jij=J(ξi1ξj2+ξi2ξj1) which was solved by van Hemmen et al. [12] using large deviation theory [14] is rigorously treated. The almost sure convergence criteria associated with the cumulant generating function C(t) with respect to the quenched random variables ξ is carefully investigated, and it is proved that the related excluded null set 𝒩 is independent of t. The free energy and hence the other thermodynamic quantities are rederived using Varadhan's Large Deviation Theorem. A simulation is also presented for the entropy when ξ assumes a Gaussian distribution.