TY  - JOUR
PB  - SciPost Foundation
DO  - 10.21468/SciPostPhys.17.6.160
TI  - Replica symmetry breaking in spin glasses in the replica-free Keldysh formalism
PY  - 2024/12/09
UR  - https://scipost.org/SciPostPhys.17.6.160
JF  - SciPost Physics
JA  - SciPost Phys.
VL  - 17
IS  - 6
SP  - 160
A1  - Lang, Johannes
AU  - Sachdev, Subir
AU  - Diehl, Sebastian
AB  - We show that the algebra of Parisi ultrametric matrices is recovered by the real-time, replica-free, Dyson-Keldysh equations of infinite-range quantum spin glasses in the late time glassy limit. This connects to earlier results on classical and quantum systems showing how ultrametricity emerges from the persistent slow aging dynamics of the glass phase. The stationary spin glass state thereby spontaneously breaks thermal symmetry, or the Kubo-Martin-Schwinger relation of a state in global thermal equilibrium. We describe the Keldysh path integral of the infinite-range Ising model in transverse and longitudinal fields, and in the context of the Landau expansion of the action functional, show how the long-time limit connects to the full replica symmetry breaking obtained in the equilibrium formalism. We also illustrate our formalism by applying it to the spherical quantum $p$-spin model, which only exhibits one-step replica symmetry breaking.
ER  -

@Article{10.21468/SciPostPhys.17.6.160,
	title={{Replica symmetry breaking in spin glasses in the replica-free Keldysh formalism}},
	author={Johannes Lang and Subir Sachdev and Sebastian Diehl},
	journal={SciPost Phys.},
	volume={17},
	pages={160},
	year={2024},
	publisher={SciPost},
	doi={10.21468/SciPostPhys.17.6.160},
	url={https://scipost.org/10.21468/SciPostPhys.17.6.160},
}