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Obtaining Stiffness Exponents from Bond-diluted Lattice Spin Glasses

Statistical Mechanics 2009-11-11 v2 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks

Abstract

Recently, a method has been proposed to obtain accurate predictions for low-temperature properties of lattice spin glasses that is practical even above the upper critical dimension, dc=6d_c=6. This method is based on the observation that bond-dilution enables the numerical treatment of larger lattices, and that the subsequent combination of such data at various bond densities into a finite-size scaling Ansatz produces more robust scaling behavior. In the present study we test the potential of such a procedure, in particular, to obtain the stiffness exponent for the hierarchical Migdal-Kadanoff lattice. Critical exponents for this model are known with great accuracy and any simulations can be executed to very large lattice sizes at almost any bond density, effecting a insightful comparison that highlights the advantages -- as well as the weaknesses -- of this method. These insights are applied to the Edwards-Anderson model in d=3d=3 with Gaussian bonds.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0501547,
  title  = {Obtaining Stiffness Exponents from Bond-diluted Lattice Spin Glasses},
  author = {S. Boettcher and S. E. Cooke},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0501547},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

corrected version, 10 pages, RevTex4, 12 ps-figures included; related papers available a http://www.physics.emory.edu/faculty/boettcher/

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