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Interface Energy in the Edwards-Anderson model

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks 2010-12-06 v2

Abstract

We numerically investigate the spin glass energy interface problem in three dimensions. We analyze the energy cost of changing the overlap from -1 to +1 at one boundary of two coupled systems (in the other boundary the overlap is kept fixed to +1). We implement a parallel tempering algorithm that simulate finite temperature systems and work with both cubic lattices and parallelepiped with fixed aspect ratio. We find results consistent with a lower critical dimension Dc=2.5D_c=2.5. The results show a good agreement with the mean field theory predictions.

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@article{arxiv.1007.3679,
  title  = {Interface Energy in the Edwards-Anderson model},
  author = {Pierluigi Contucci and Cristian Giardina' and Claudio Giberti and Giorgio Parisi and Cecilia Vernia},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1007.3679},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

5 pages; 7 figures; corrected typos; to appear in JSP

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