Comment on "General Method to Determine Replica Symmetry Breaking Transitions"
Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
2009-10-31 v1
Abstract
In a recent letter Marinari et al [Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 1698 (1998)] introduced a new method to study spin glass transitions and argued that by probing replica symmetry (RS) as opposed to time reversal symmetry (TRS), their method unambiguously shows that replica symmetry breaking (RSB) occurs in short-range spin glasses. In this comment we show that while the new method is indeed useful for studying transitions in systems where TRS is absent (such as the p-spin model studied by them), the conclusion that it shows the existence of RSB in short-range spin glasses is wrong.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9811080,
title = {Comment on "General Method to Determine Replica Symmetry Breaking Transitions"},
author = {Hemant Bokil and A. J. Bray and Barbara Drossel and M. A. Moore},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9811080},
year = {2009}
}
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