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The de Almeida-Thouless line in vector spin glasses

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks 2013-05-29 v2 Statistical Mechanics

Abstract

We consider the infinite-range spin glass in which the spins have m > 1 components (a vector spin glass). Applying a magnetic field which is random in direction, there is an Almeida Thouless (AT) line below which the "replica symmetric" solution is unstable, just as for the Ising (m=1) case. We calculate the location of this AT line for Gaussian random fields for arbitrary m, and verify our results by numerical simulations for m = 3$.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1003.5599,
  title  = {The de Almeida-Thouless line in vector spin glasses},
  author = {Auditya Sharma and A. P. Young},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1003.5599},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

19 pages, 4 eps figures

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