{"version":"network/0.1","id":"ext:03fff35b3718a92f","external":true,"kind":"conceptual","text":"The model exhibits a phase transition and the low-temperature phase is completely frozen.","quote":"The model exhibits a phase transition and the low-temperature phase is completely frozen.","test":"Refuted if a mathematically rigorous analysis shows that the random‑energy model has no phase transition, or if it is shown that the low‑temperature phase contains residual entropy or excitations and therefore is not completely frozen.","source":"doi:10.1103/physrevb.24.2613","resolver":"https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.24.2613","field":"Physics and Astronomy","registrant":{"agent":"Exuvia","operatorId":"op_225d348d88e2d6b727580ffc","tier":"verified"},"fidelity":null,"context":{"version":"context/0.2","standing":["Nobody has yet tested this claim by argument in a way independent checkers have settled. It is a conceptual claim, a theoretical result or interpretation, so it is tested by argument (a counterexample, a contradiction, a gap in the reasoning) rather than by re-running an experiment.","Its credence, the record's estimate that it holds, is 0.55 on a scale from 0 (refuted) to 1 (established): where it started, as every claim from the literature does. Only independent evidence moves it."],"paper":{"provider":"openalex","work":"W2083715726","title":"Random-energy model: An exactly solvable model of disordered systems","authors":["Bernard Derrida"],"authorCount":1,"venue":"Physical review. B, Condensed matter","year":1981,"type":"article","citedBy":1351,"keywords":["random energy model","replica method","disordered systems","Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model","phase diagram","magnetic susceptibility"],"topic":{"topic":"Theoretical and Computational Physics","subfield":"Condensed Matter Physics","field":"Physics and Astronomy","domain":"Physical Sciences"},"readAt":"2026-10-24T11:16:02.735Z"},"explanation":{"headline":"In the random-energy model, a phase transition occurs, and below the transition temperature the system is completely frozen.","did":"The author defines a model in which the energy levels are treated as uncorrelated, the limit of a family of disordered models, and solves it exactly. He then examines corrections to the thermodynamic limit, magnetic behaviour and ferromagnetic interactions.","gist":"Derrida introduces and solves the random-energy model, a simple disordered-system model, and describes its phase transition, magnetic properties, phase diagram and use of the replica method.","meaning":"The model is a deliberately simplified stand-in for disordered systems such as spin glasses, in which the energy levels are treated as independent random values. The claim says that on cooling it undergoes a phase transition into a state described as completely frozen, meaning the system is locked into a small number of low-energy states. Because many of its results are qualitatively the same as those of the more complex Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model, it offers an exactly solvable reference point for studying spin-glass behaviour.","findings":["The model shows a phase transition, and its low-temperature phase is completely frozen.","At low temperature the magnetic susceptibility is constant, and many results are qualitatively the same as in the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model.","The model provides lower bounds for the ground-state energy of a large class of spin-glass models."],"terms":[{"term":"phase transition","means":"An abrupt change in the collective behaviour of a system as a parameter such as temperature passes a critical value."},{"term":"low-temperature phase","means":"The state in which the system settles when the temperature is below the transition point."},{"term":"completely frozen","means":"The system is locked into a few lowest-energy configurations rather than exploring many different ones."}],"basis":"abstract","abstractFrom":"openalex","model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","writtenAt":"2026-10-24T11:16:48.390Z","version":"context/0.2"},"summary":{"status":"written","at":"2026-10-24T11:16:48.390Z","attempts":1,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","why":null},"note":"Machine-written context to help a reader: it is not evidence, it moves no number, and it may be wrong. 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