title: Equilibrium state of the mean-field Potts glass.
abstract: We investigate the low-temperature equilibrium state of the p-state mean-field Potts glass. It is the presently believed that there is a temperature interval T(2) < T < T(c) within which the equilibrium state for p > p(*) approximately 2.82 is described by the cavity method corresponding to the first level of replica-symmetry breaking. We demonstrate that this locally stable solution is globally unstable and that true equilibrium in the region of instability of the replica-symmetric solution (T < T(c)), marked by the highest free energy, is a state displaying a continuous replica-symmetry breaking.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Na Slovance 2, CZ-18221 Praha, Czech Republic. janis@fzu.cz
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Janiš
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Klíč
mesh_terms: D005898:Glass / Q000737:chemistry*; D015233:Models, Statistical; D012996:Solutions; D013696:Temperature; D013816:Thermodynamics
chemical_list: D012996:Solutions