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Evidence of Non-Mean-Field-Like Low-Temperature Behavior in the Edwards-Anderson Spin-Glass Model
Physical Review Letters (2012)
  • B. Yucesoy
  • Helmut G. Katzgraber
  • Jonathan Machta, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Abstract
The three-dimensional Edwards-Anderson and mean-field Sherrington-Kirkpatrick Ising spin glasses are studied via large-scale Monte Carlo simulations at low temperatures, deep within the spin-glass phase. Performing a careful statistical analysis of several thousand independent disorder realizations and using an observable that detects peaks in the overlap distribution, we show that the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick and Edwards-Anderson models have a distinctly different low-temperature behavior. The structure of the spin-glass overlap distribution for the Edwards-Anderson model suggests that its low-temperature phase has only a single pair of pure states.
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Publication Date
October 24, 2012
Publisher Statement
This is the pre-published version harvested from arXiv. The published version is located at http://prl.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v109/i17/e177204
Citation Information
B. Yucesoy, Helmut G. Katzgraber and Jonathan Machta. "Evidence of Non-Mean-Field-Like Low-Temperature Behavior in the Edwards-Anderson Spin-Glass Model" Physical Review Letters Vol. 109 (2012)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/joonathan_machta/8/