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Effective critical behavior of the two-dimensional Ising spin glass with bimodal interactions

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks 2007-05-23 v2

Abstract

Monte Carlo data of the two-dimensional Ising spin glass with bimodal interactions are presented with the aim of understanding the low-temperature physics of the model. An analysis of the specific heat, spin-glass susceptibility, finite-size correlation length, and the Binder ratio is performed to try to verify a recent proposal in which for large system sizes and finite but low temperatures the effective critical exponents are identical to the critical exponents of the two-dimensional Ising spin glass with Gaussian interactions. Our results show that with present system sizes the recently proposed scenario in which the two-dimensional Ising spin glass with bimodally distributed interactions is in the same universality class as the model with Gaussian-distributed disorder at low but finite temperatures cannot be reliably proven.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0609377,
  title  = {Effective critical behavior of the two-dimensional Ising spin glass with bimodal interactions},
  author = {Helmut G. Katzgraber and Lik Wee Lee and I. A. Campbell},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0609377},
  year   = {2007}
}

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10 pages, 10 figures, 2 tables