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Energy barriers of spin glasses from multi-overlap simulations

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks 2017-09-27 v1 Statistical Mechanics High Energy Physics - Lattice

Abstract

We report large-scale simulations of the three-dimensional Edwards-Anderson Ising spin glass system using the recently introduced multi-overlap Monte Carlo algorithm. In this approach the temperature is fixed and two replica are coupled through a weight factor such that a broad distribution of the Parisi overlap parameter qq is achieved. Canonical expectation values for the entire qq-range (multi-overlap) follow by reweighting. We present an analysis of the performance of the algorithm and in particular discuss results on spin glass free-energy barriers which are hard to obtain with conventional algorithms. In addition we discuss the non-trivial scaling behavior of the canonical qq-distributions in the broken phase.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9811423,
  title  = {Energy barriers of spin glasses from multi-overlap simulations},
  author = {Wolfhard Janke and Bernd A. Berg and Alain Billoire},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9811423},
  year   = {2017}
}

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10 pages, Latex, 9 Postscript figures