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Continuous symmetry breaking along the Nishimori line

Abstract

We prove continuous symmetry breaking in three dimensions for a special class of disordered models described by the Nishimori line. The spins take values in a group such as S1\mathbb{S}^1, SU(n)SU(n) or SO(n)SO(n). Our proof is based on a theorem about group synchronization proved by Abbe, Massouli\é, Montanari, Sly and Srivastava [AMM+18]. It also relies on a gauge transformation acting jointly on the disorder and the spin configurations due to Nishimori [Nis81, GHLDB85]. The proof does not use reflection positivity. The correlation inequalities of [MMSP78] imply symmetry breaking for the classical XYXY model without disorder.

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