1996/11/08 by Andrea Cavagna, Irene Giardina, Giorgio Parisi · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #cond-mat.dis-nn
paper · pdf · doi:10.1088/0305-4470/30/13/004
published as J. Phys. A 30 (1997) 4449 · plain tex, 26 pages, 6 postscript figures
arxiv created 1996/11/08 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30
We introduce a three replica potential useful to examine the structure of metastables states above the static transition temperature, in the spherical p-spin model. Studying the minima of the potential we are able to find which is the distance between the nearest equilibrium and local equilibrium states, obtaining in this way information on the dynamics of the system. Furthermore, the analysis of the potential at the dynamical transition temperature suggests that equilibrium states are not randomly distributed in the phase space.