Eur. Phys. J. B 36, 129-136 (2003)
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjb/e2003-00325-x

The complexity of the spherical p-spin spin glass model, revisited

Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Roma “La Sapienza”, Istituto Nazionale Fisica della Materia, Unità di Roma, and SMC, P.le Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Roma, Italy

Corresponding author: ^a luca.leuzzi@romal.infn.it

Received: 24 July 2003
Published online: 19 November 2003

Abstract

Some questions concerning the calculation of the number of “physical” (metastable) states or complexity of the spherical p-spin spin glass model are reviewed and examined further. Particular attention is focused on the general calculation procedure which is discussed step-by-step.