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Are Domain Walls in Spin Glasses Described by Stochastic Loewner Evolutions?

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks 2007-07-16 v1 Statistical Mechanics

Abstract

Domain walls for spin glasses are believed to be scale invariant invariant; a stronger symmetry, conformal invariance, has the potential to hold. The statistics of zero-temperature Ising spin glass domain walls in two dimensions are used to test the hypothesis that these domain walls are described by a Schramm-Loewner evolution SLEκ_\kappa. Multiple tests are consistent with SLEκ_\kappa, where κ=2.30(5)\kappa=2.30(5). Both conformal invariance and the domain Markov property are tested. The latter does not hold in small systems, but detailed numerical evidence suggests that it holds in the continuum limit.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0611433,
  title  = {Are Domain Walls in Spin Glasses Described by Stochastic Loewner Evolutions?},
  author = {Denis Bernard and Pierre Le Doussal and A. Alan Middleton},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0611433},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

4 pages, 3 figures, see related work by Amoruso, Hartmann, Hastings, Moore at cond-mat/0601711