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Phase transitions in the Potts spin glass model

Statistical Mechanics 2016-08-31 v1

Abstract

We have studied the Potts spin glass with 2-state Ising spins and s-state Potts variables using a cluster Monte Carlo dynamics. The model recovers the +- J Ising spin glass (SG) for s=1 and exhibits for all s a SG transition at T_{SG}(s) and a percolation transition at higher temperature T_p(s). We have shown that for all values of s1s\neq 1 at T_p(s) there is a thermodynamical transition in the universality class of a ferromagnetic s-state Potts model. The efficiency of the cluster dynamics is compared with that of standard spin flip dynamics.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9804037,
  title  = {Phase transitions in the Potts spin glass model},
  author = {Giancarlo Franzese and Antonio Coniglio},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9804037},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

8 pages, Latex, with 8 EPS figs

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