English

Energy barriers in spin glasses

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks 2009-11-10 v2 Statistical Mechanics

Abstract

For an Ising spin glass on a hierarchical lattice, we show that the energy barrier to be overcome during the flip of a domain of size L scales as L to the power d-1 for all dimensions d. We do this by investigating appropriate lower bounds to the barrier energy, which can be evaluated using an algorithm that remains fast for large system sizes and dimensions. The asymptotic limit of infinite dimensions is evaluated analytically.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0403269,
  title  = {Energy barriers in spin glasses},
  author = {Barbara Drossel and M. A. Moore},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0403269},
  year   = {2009}
}

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4 pages, 5 figures

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