Dynamical replica analysis of disordered Ising spin systems on finitely connected random graphs

Phys Rev Lett. 2005 Sep 9;95(11):117204. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.117204. Epub 2005 Sep 8.

Abstract

We study the dynamics of macroscopic observables such as the magnetization and the energy per degree of freedom in Ising spin models on random graphs of finite connectivity, with random bonds and/or heterogeneous degree distributions. To do so, we generalize existing versions of dynamical replica theory and cavity field techniques to systems with strongly disordered and locally treelike interactions. We illustrate our results via application to, e.g., +/-J spin glasses on random graphs and of the overlap in finite connectivity Sourlas codes. All results are tested against Monte Carlo simulations.