Competition between glassiness and order in a multispin glass

Phys Rev E Stat Phys Plasmas Fluids Relat Interdiscip Topics. 1999 Sep;60(3):R2460-3. doi: 10.1103/physreve.60.r2460.

Abstract

A mean-field multispin interaction spin glass model is analyzed in the presence of a ferromagnetic coupling. The static and dynamical phase diagrams contain four phases (paramagnet, spin glass, ordinary ferromagnet, and glassy ferromagnet) and exhibit reentrant behavior. The glassy ferromagnet phase has anomalous dynamical properties. The results are consistent with a nonequilibrium thermodynamics that has been proposed for glasses.