
Unpublished Paper
A Percolation-Theoretic Approach to Spin Glass Phase Transitions
Progress in Probability
(2009)
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
Comments
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/