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VOLUME 85 (2007) | ISSUE 5 | PAGE 314
The density of stationary points in a high-dimensional random energy landscape and the onset of glassy behaviour
PACS: 05.40.-a, 75.10.Nr
Abstract
We calculate the density of stationary points and minima of a N\gg 1 dimensional Gaussian energy landscape. We use it to show that the point of zero-temperature replica symmetry breaking in the equilibrium statistical mechanics of a particle placed in such a landscape in a spherical box of size L=R\sqrt{N} corresponds to the onset of exponential in N growth of the cumulative number of stationary points, but not necessarily the minima. For finite temperatures we construct a simple variational upper bound on the true free energy of the R=∞ version of the problem and show that this approximation is able to recover the position of the whole de-Almeida-Thouless line.