English

Spin glass overlap barriers in three and four dimensions

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks 2009-10-31 v2 Statistical Mechanics

Abstract

For the Edwards-Anderson Ising spin-glass model in three and four dimensions (3d and 4d) we have performed high statistics Monte Carlo calculations of those free-energy barriers FBqF^q_B which are visible in the probability density PJ(q)P_J(q) of the Parisi overlap parameter qq. The calculations rely on the recently introduced multi-overlap algorithm. In both dimensions, within the limits of lattice sizes investigated, these barriers are found to be non-self-averaging and the same is true for the autocorrelation times of our algorithm. Further, we present evidence that barriers hidden in qq dominate the canonical autocorrelation times.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9910323,
  title  = {Spin glass overlap barriers in three and four dimensions},
  author = {Bernd A. Berg and Alain Billoire and Wolfhard Janke},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9910323},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

20 pages, Latex, 12 Postscript figures, revised version to appear in Phys. Rev. B