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Unpublished Paper
A Percolation-Theoretic Approach to Spin Glass Phase Transitions
Progress in Probability (2009)
  • Jonathan Machta, University of Massachusetts Amherst
  • C. M. Newman
  • D. L. Stein
Abstract
The magnetically ordered, low temperature phase of Ising ferromagnets is manifested within the associated Fortuin—Kasteleyn (FK) random cluster representation by the occurrence of a single positive density percolating cluster. In this paper, we review our recent work on the percolation signature for Ising spin glass ordering — both in the short-range Edwards—Anderson (EA) and infinite-range Sherrington—Kirkpatrick (SK) models — within a tworeplica FK representation and also in the different Chayes—Machta—Redner two-replica graphical representation. Numerical studies of the ±J EA model in dimension three and rigorous results for the SK model are consistent in supporting the conclusion that the signature of spin-glass order in these models is the existence of a single percolating cluster of maximal density normally coexisting with a second percolating cluster of lower density.
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Publication Date
2009
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Prepublished version downloaded from ArXiv. Published version is located at http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-7643-9891-0_9
Citation Information
Jonathan Machta, C. M. Newman and D. L. Stein. "A Percolation-Theoretic Approach to Spin Glass Phase Transitions" Progress in Probability (2009)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/joonathan_machta/14/