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Conformal Invariance and SLE in Two-Dimensional Ising Spin Glasses

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks 2009-11-11 v3

Abstract

We present numerical evidence that the techniques of conformal field theory might be applicable to two-dimensional Ising spin glasses with Gaussian bond distributions. It is shown that certain domain wall distributions in one geometry can be related to that in a second geometry by a conformal transformation. We also present direct evidence that the domain walls are stochastic Loewner (SLE) processes with κ2.1\kappa \approx 2.1. An argument is given that their fractal dimension dfd_f is related to their interface energy exponent θ\theta by df1=3/[4(3+θ)]d_f-1=3/[4(3+\theta)], which is consistent with the commonly quoted values df1.27d_f \approx 1.27 and θ0.28\theta \approx -0.28.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0601711,
  title  = {Conformal Invariance and SLE in Two-Dimensional Ising Spin Glasses},
  author = {C. Amoruso and A. K. Hartmann and M. B. Hastings and M. A. Moore},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0601711},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

4 pages, 4 figures, changed title and discussion, additional discussion of Markov property; discussion of Markov property removed, discussion of statistics of driving function of Loewner map added, see also related work by Bernard, Le Doussal, and Middleton to appear soon