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Multicritical point on the de Almeida-Thouless line in spin glasses in $d>6$ dimensions

Statistical Mechanics 2018-04-04 v2 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks

Abstract

The de Almeida-Thouless (AT) line in Ising spin glasses is the phase boundary in the temperature TT and magnetic field hh plane below which replica symmetry is broken. Using perturbative renormalization group (RG) methods, we show that when the dimension dd of space is just above 66 there is a multicritical point (MCP) on the AT line, which separates a low-field regime, in which the critical exponents have mean-field values, from a high-field regime where the RG flows run away to infinite coupling strength; as dd approaches 66 from above, the location of the MCP approaches the zero-field critical point exponentially in 1/(d6)1/(d-6). Thus on the AT line perturbation theory for the critical properties breaks down at sufficiently large magnetic field even above 66 dimensions, as well as for all non-zero fields when d6d\leq 6 as was known previously. We calculate the exponents at the MCP to first order in ε=d6>0\varepsilon=d-6>0. The fate of the MCP as dd increases from just above 6 to infinity is not known.

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@article{arxiv.1801.09779,
  title  = {Multicritical point on the de Almeida-Thouless line in spin glasses in $d>6$ dimensions},
  author = {M. A. Moore and N. Read},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1801.09779},
  year   = {2018}
}

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5 pages. V2: published version, minor changes