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In [17], the authors have defined an annealed Ising model on random graphs and proved limit theorems for the magnetization of this model on some random graphs including random 2-regular graphs. Then in [11], we generalized their results to the class of all random regular graphs. In this paper, we study the critical behavior of this model. In particular, we determine the critical exponents and prove a non standard limit theorem that the magnetization scaled by n 3/4 converges to a specific random variable, with n the number of vertices of random regular graphs.
In a recent paper [15], Giardin{`a}, Giberti, Hofstad, Prioriello have proved a law of large number and a central limit theorem with respect to the annealed measure for the magnetization of the Ising model on some random graphs including the random 2-regular graph. We present a new proof of their results, which applies to all random regular graphs. In addition, we prove the existence of annealed pressure in the case of configuration model random graphs.
In this paper, we study the annealed ferromagnetic Ising model on the configuration model. In an annealed system, we take the average on both sides of the ratio {defining the Boltzmann-Gibbs measure of the Ising model}. In the configuration model, the degrees are specified. Remarkably, when the degrees are deterministic, the critical value of the annealed Ising model is the same as that for the quenched Ising model. For independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) degrees, instead, the annealed critical value is strictly smaller than that of the quenched Ising model. This identifies the degree structure of the underlying graph as the main driver for the critical value. Furthermore, in both contexts (deterministic or random degrees), we provide the variational expression for the annealed pressure. Interestingly, our rigorous results establish that only part of the heuristic conjectures in the physics literature were correct.
Consider random $d$-regular graphs, i.e., random graphs such that there are exactly $d$ edges from each vertex for some $dge 3$. We study both the configuration model version of this graph, which has occasional multi-edges and self-loops, as well as the simple version of it, which is a $d$-regular graph chosen uniformly at random from the collection of all $d$-regular graphs. In this paper, we discuss mixing times of Glauber dynamics for the Ising model with an external magnetic field on a random $d$-regular graph, both in the quenched as well as the annealed settings. Let $beta$ be the inverse temperature, $beta_c$ be the critical temperature and $B$ be the external magnetic field. Concerning the annealed measure, we show that for $beta > beta_c$ there exists $hat{B}_c(beta)in (0,infty)$ such that the model is metastable (i.e., the mixing time is exponential in the graph size $n$) when $beta> beta_c$ and $0 leq B < hat{B}_c(beta)$, whereas it exhibits the cut-off phenomenon at $c_star n log n$ with a window of order $n$ when $beta < beta_c$ or $beta > beta_c$ and $B>hat{B}_c(beta)$. Interestingly, $hat{B}_c(beta)$ coincides with the critical external field of the Ising model on the $d$-ary tree (namely, above which the model has a unique Gibbs measure). Concerning the quenched measure, we show that there exists $B_c(beta)$ with $B_c(beta) leq hat{B}_c(beta)$ such that for $beta> beta_c$, the mixing time is at least exponential along some subsequence $(n_k)_{kgeq 1}$ when $0 leq B < B_c(beta)$, whereas it is less than or equal to $Cnlog n$ when $B>hat{B}_c(beta)$. The quenched results also hold for the model conditioned on simplicity, for the annealed results this is unclear.
The Ising antiferromagnet is an important statistical physics model with close connections to the {sc Max Cut} problem. Combining spatial mixing arguments with the method of moments and the interpolation method, we pinpoint the replica symmetry breaking phase transition predicted by physicists. Additionally, we rigorously establish upper bounds on the {sc Max Cut} of random regular graphs predicted by Zdeborova and Boettcher [Journal of Statistical Mechanics 2010]. As an application we prove that the information-theoretic threshold of the disassortative stochastic block model on random regular graphs coincides with the Kesten-Stigum bound.
We study the equilibrium properties of an Ising model on a disordered random network where the disorder can be quenched or annealed. The network consists of four-fold coordinated sites connected via variable length one-dimensional chains. Our emphasis is on nonuniversal properties and we consider the transition temperature and other equilibrium thermodynamic properties, including those associated with one dimensional fluctuations arising from the chains. We use analytic methods in the annealed case, and a Monte Carlo simulation for the quenched disorder. Our objective is to study the difference between quenched and annealed results with a broad random distribution of interaction parameters. The former represents a situation where the time scale associated with the randomness is very long and the corresponding degrees of freedom can be viewed as frozen, while the annealed case models the situation where this is not so. We find that the transition temperature and the entropy associated with one dimensional fluctuations are always higher for quenched disorder than in the annealed case. These differences increase with the strength of the disorder up to a saturating value. We discuss our results in connection to physical systems where a broad distribution of interaction strengths is present.