Guerra interpolation for inverse freezing

Abstract

In these short notes, we adapt and systematically apply Guerra's interpolation techniques on a class of disordered mean-field spin glasses equipped with crystal fields and multi-value spin variables. These models undergo the phenomenon of inverse melting or inverse freezing. In particular, we focus on the Ghatak-Sherrington model, its extension provided by Katayama and Horiguchi, and the disordered Blume-Emery-Griffiths-Capel model in the mean-field limit, deepened by Crisanti and Leuzzi and by Schupper and Shnerb. Once shown how all these models can be retrieved as particular limits of a unique broader Hamiltonian, we study their free energies. We provide explicit expressions of their annealed and quenched expectations, inspecting the cases of replica symmetry and (first-step) broken replica symmetry. We recover several results previously obtained via heuristic approaches (mainly the replica trick) to prove full agreement with the existing literature. As a sideline, we also inspect the onset of replica symmetry breaking by providing analytically the expression of the de Almeida-Thouless instability line for a replica symmetric description: in this general setting, the latter is new also from a physical viewpoint.