Quantum Hopfield Model

We find the free-energy in the thermodynamic limit of a one-dimensional XY model associated to a system of N qubits. The coupling among the σ i z is a long range two-body random interaction. The randomness in the couplings is the typical interaction of the Hopfield model with p patterns ( p < N ), where the patterns are p sequences of N independent identically distributed random variables (i.i.d.r.v.), assuming values ± 1 with probability 1 / 2 . We show also that in the case p ≤ α N , α ≠ 0 , the free-energy is asymptotically independent from the choice of the patterns, i.e., it is self-averaging.