A conjectured scenario for order-parameter fluctuations in spin glasses

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/33/37/304zbMATH Open0976.82050OpenAlexW3103070164WikidataQ57828414 ScholiaQ57828414MaRDI QIDQ4520705FDOQ4520705

Authors Felix Ritort, Marta Sales 

Publication date 13 December 2000

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0003336

zbMATH Keywords

phase transitionsdisordered systemsfinite volumefinite temperaturesorder-parameter fluctuationsSherrington-Kirkpatrick spherical spin-glass model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Software, source code, etc. for problems pertaining to statistical mechanics (82-04) Disordered systems (random Ising models, random Schrödinger operators, etc.) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B44) Statistical mechanics of random media, disordered materials (including liquid crystals and spin glasses) (82D30)

Abstract: We study order-parameter fluctuations (OPF) in disordered systems by considering the behavior of some recently introduced paramaters $G,G_c$ which have proven very useful to locate phase transitions. We prove that both parameters G (for disconnected overlap disorder averages) and $G_c$ (for connected disorder averages) take the respective universal values 1/3 and 13/31 in the $To0$ limit for any {em finite} volume provided the ground state is {em unique} and there is no gap in the ground state local-field distributions, conditions which are met in generic spin-glass models with continuous couplings and no gap at zero coupling. This makes $G,G_c$ ideal parameters to locate phase transitions in disordered systems much alike the Binder cumulant is for ordered systems. We check our results by exactly computing OPF in a simple example of uncoupled spins in the presence of random fields and the one-dimensional Ising spin glass. At finite temperatures, we discuss in which conditions the value 1/3 for G may be recovered by conjecturing different scenarios depending on whether OPF are finite or vanish in the infinite-volume limit. In particular, we discuss replica equivalence and its natural consequence $li{m}_{Voinfty}G(V,T)=1/3$ when OPF are finite. As an example of a model where OPF vanish and replica equivalence does not give information about G we study the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick spherical spin-glass model by doing numerical simulations for small sizes. Again we find results compatible with G=1/3 in the spin-glass phase.

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