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Tensionless structure of glassy phase

Statistical Mechanics 2009-11-07 v1 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks

Abstract

We study a class of homogeneous finite-dimensional Ising models which were recently shown to exhibit glassy properties. Monte Carlo simulations of a particular three-dimensional model in this class show that the glassy phase obtained under slow cooling is dominated by large scale excitations whose energy ElE_l scales with their size ll as EllΘE_l\sim l^{\Theta} with Θ1.33(5)\Theta\sim 1.33(5). Simulations suggest that in another model of this class, namely the four-spin model, energy is concentrated mainly in linear defects making also in this case domain walls tensionless. Two-dimensinal variants of these models are trivial and energy of excitations scales with the exponent Θ=1.05(5)\Theta=1.05(5).

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0106211,
  title  = {Tensionless structure of glassy phase},
  author = {A. Lipowski and D. Johnston},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0106211},
  year   = {2009}
}

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