The TAP approach to mean field spin glasses

RANDOM MATRIX

Speaker:

David Belius - University of Basel

The Thouless-Anderson-Palmer (TAP) approach to the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick mean field spin glass model was proposed in one of the earliest papers on this model. Since then it has complemented subsequently elaborated methods  in theoretical physics and mathematics, such as the replica method, which are largely orthogonal to the TAP approach. The TAP approach has the advantage of being interpretable as a variational principle optimizing an energy/entropy trade-off, as commonly encountered in statistical physics and large deviations theory, and potentially allowing for a more direct characterization of the Gibbs measure and its "pure states". In this talk I will recall the TAP approach, and present preliminary steps towards a solution of mean field spin glass models entirely within a TAP framework.

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