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Glassy phase in the Hamiltonian Mean Field model

Alessandro Pluchino, Vito Latora, Andrea Rapisarda

cond-mat.stat-mecharXiv:cond-mat/0306374

Abstract

We study the relaxation dynamics of a Hamiltonian system of N fully-coupled XY spins. The thermodynamics of the system predicts a ferromagnetic and a paramagnetic phase. Starting from out-of-equilibrium initial conditions, the dynamics at constant energy drives the system into quasi-stationary states (QSS) characterized by dynamical frustration. We introduce the spin polarization as a new order parameter which allows to interpret the dynamically generated QSS regime as a glassy phase of the model.

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