PDE and mathematical physics · Oct 6, 2026

Critical SK autocorrelation processes and dynamics across the temperature transition

For zero-field Gaussian SK heat-bath dynamics with rate-one updates per spin, proves worst-start cutoff on the log⁡n\log n scale for fixed 0≤β<10\le\beta\lt 1, mixing time n2/3+o(1)n^{2/3+o(1)} at β = 1, and stretched-exponential mixing from a Gibbs-sampled fixed starting configuration for β > 1, in probability over disorder. At criticality, rescaled stationary and quench autocorrelation processes have universal random limits for Gaussian and Rademacher disorder; the quench limit relaxes to the stationary limit.

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