We focus on the energy landscape of a simple mean-field model of glasses and analyze activated barrier-crossing by combining the Kac-Rice method for high-dimensional Gaussian landscapes with dynamical field theory. In particular, we consider Langevin dynamics at low temperature in the energy landscape of the pure spherical p-spin model. We select as initial condition for the dynamics one of the many unstable index-1 saddles in the vicinity of a reference local minimum. We show that the associated dynamical mean-field equations admit two solutions: one corresponds to falling back to the original reference minimum, and the other to reaching a new minimum past the barrier. By varying the saddle we scan and characterize the properties of such minima reachable by activated barrier-crossing. Finally, using time-reversal transformations, we construct the two-point function dynamical instanton of the corresponding activated process.

Dynamical instantons and activated processes in mean-field glass models / Ros, V.; Biroli, G.; Cammarota, C.. - In: SCIPOST PHYSICS. - ISSN 2542-4653. - 10:1(2021). [10.21468/SCIPOSTPHYS.10.1.002]

Dynamical instantons and activated processes in mean-field glass models

Cammarota C.
2021

Abstract

We focus on the energy landscape of a simple mean-field model of glasses and analyze activated barrier-crossing by combining the Kac-Rice method for high-dimensional Gaussian landscapes with dynamical field theory. In particular, we consider Langevin dynamics at low temperature in the energy landscape of the pure spherical p-spin model. We select as initial condition for the dynamics one of the many unstable index-1 saddles in the vicinity of a reference local minimum. We show that the associated dynamical mean-field equations admit two solutions: one corresponds to falling back to the original reference minimum, and the other to reaching a new minimum past the barrier. By varying the saddle we scan and characterize the properties of such minima reachable by activated barrier-crossing. Finally, using time-reversal transformations, we construct the two-point function dynamical instanton of the corresponding activated process.
2021
activated dynamics, rough landscapes, instantons, Langevin dynamics
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Dynamical instantons and activated processes in mean-field glass models / Ros, V.; Biroli, G.; Cammarota, C.. - In: SCIPOST PHYSICS. - ISSN 2542-4653. - 10:1(2021). [10.21468/SCIPOSTPHYS.10.1.002]
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