Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model

ID: sherrington-kirkpatrick-model

The Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model couples every distinct pair of Ising spins using independent standard normal random variables for , with . Here and have units of energy. David Sherrington and Scott Kirkpatrick introduced this scaling in 1975; their original replica-symmetric calculation gave an unphysical negative low-temperature entropy. The model and that initial proposed solution must be distinguished.[ref]

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