Conformal Invariance and SLE in Two-Dimensional Ising Spin Glasses
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 . An argument is given that their fractal dimension is related to their interface energy exponent by , which is consistent with the commonly quoted values and .
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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