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The Random-Bond Ising Model and its dual in Hyperbolic Spaces

Statistical Mechanics 2023-03-01 v2 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks Quantum Physics

Abstract

We analyze the thermodynamic properties of the random-bond Ising model (RBIM) on closed hyperbolic surfaces using Monte Carlo and high-temperature series expansion techniques. We also analyze the dual-RBIM, that is the model that in the absence of disorder is related to the RBIM via the Kramers-Wannier duality. Even on self-dual lattices this model is different from the RBIM, unlike in the euclidean case. We explain this anomaly by a careful re-derivation of the Kramers--Wannier duality. For the (dual-)RBIM, we compute the paramagnet-to-ferromagnet phase transition as a function of both temperature TT and the fraction of antiferromagnetic bonds pp. We find that as temperature is decreased in the RBIM, the paramagnet gives way to either a ferromagnet or a spin-glass phase via a second-order transition compatible with mean-field behavior. In contrast, the dual-RBIM undergoes a strongly first order transition from the paramagnet to the ferromagnet both in the absence of disorder and along the Nishimori line. We study both transitions for a variety of hyperbolic tessellations and comment on the role of coordination number and curvature. The extent of the ferromagnetic phase in the dual-RBIM corresponds to the correctable phase of hyperbolic surface codes under independent bit- and phase-flip noise.

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@article{arxiv.2210.07227,
  title  = {The Random-Bond Ising Model and its dual in Hyperbolic Spaces},
  author = {Benedikt Placke and Nikolas P. Breuckmann},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.07227},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

13 pages, 11 figures

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