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arXiv:0804.1857 · New Journal of Physics

Energy gap of the bimodal two-dimensional Ising spin glass

W Atisattapong, J Poulter

Published Sep 11, 2008• 7 citations
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Abstract

An exact algorithm is used to compute the degeneracies of the excited states of the bimodal Ising spin glass in two dimensions. It is found that the specific heat at arbitrary low temperature is not a self-averaging quantity and has a distribution that is neither normal nor lognormal. Nevertheless, it is possible to estimate the most likely value and this is found to scale as L 3 T -2 exp (−4 J / kT ), for a L × L lattice. Our analysis also explains, for the first time, why a correlation length ξ∼exp (2 J / kT ) is consistent with an energy gap of 2 J . Our method allows us to obtain results for up to 10 5 disorder realizations with L ⩽96. Distributions of second and third excitations are also shown.

DOI
10.1088/1367-2630/10/9/093012

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An exact algorithm is used to compute the degeneracies of the excited states of the bimodal Ising spin glass in two dimensions. It is found that the specific heat at arbitrary low temperature is not a self-averaging quantity and has a distribution that is neither normal nor lognormal. Nevertheless, it is possible to estimate the most likely value and this is found to scale as L 3 T -2 exp (−4 J / kT ), for a L × L lattice. Our analysis also explains, for the first time, why a correlation length ξ∼exp (2 J / kT ) is consistent with an energy gap of 2 J . Our method allows us to obtain results for up to 10 5 disorder realizations with L ⩽96. Distributions of second and third excitations are also shown.
An exact algorithm is used to investigate the distributions of the degeneracies of low-energy excited states for the bimodal Ising spin glass on the brickwork lattice. Since the distributions are extreme and do not self-average, we base our conclusions on the most likely values of the degeneracies. Our main result is that the degeneracy of the first excited state per ground state and per spin is finite in the thermodynamic limit. This is very different from the same model on a square lattice where a divergence proportional to the linear lattice size is expected. The energy gap for the brickwork lattice is obviously 2 J on finite systems and predicted to be the same in the thermodynamic limit. Our results suggest that a 2 J gap is universal for planar bimodal Ising spin glasses. The distribution of the second contribution to the internal energy has a mode close to zero and we predict that the low-temperature specific heat is dominated by the leading term proportional to T −2 exp (−2 J / kT ).
We compute the exact partition function of 2d Ising spin glasses with binary couplings. In these systems, the ground state is highly degenerate and is separated from the first excited state by a gap of size 4J. Nevertheless, we find that the low temperature specific heat density scales as exp(-2J/T), corresponding to an "effective" gap of size 2J; in addition, an associated crossover length scale grows as exp(J/T). We justify these scalings via the degeneracy of the low lying excitations and by the way low energy domain walls proliferate in this model.
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Direct measurements of the spin glass correlation function G(R)G(R)G(R) for Gaussian and bimodal Ising spin glasses in dimension two have been carried out in the temperature region $T\ensuremath{\sim}1$. In the Gaussian case the data are consistent with the known anomalous dimension value $\ensuremath{\eta}\ensuremath{\equiv}0$. For the bimodal spin glass in this temperature region T>T∗(L)T>{T}^{*}(L)T>T∗(L), well above the crossover T∗(L){T}^{*}(L)T∗(L) to the ground-state-dominated regime, the effective exponent $\ensuremath{\eta}$ is clearly nonzero and the data are consistent with the estimate $\ensuremath{\eta}\ensuremath{\sim}0.28(4)$ given by McMillan in 1983 from similar measurements. Measurements of the temperature dependence of the Binder cumulant U4(T,L){U}_{4}(T,L)U4​(T,L) and the normalized correlation length $\ensuremath{\xi}(T,L)/L$ for the two models confirms the conclusion that the two-dimensional (2D) bimodal model has a nonzero effective $\ensuremath{\eta}$ both below and above T∗(L){T}^{*}(L)T∗(L). The 2D bimodal and Gaussian interaction distribution Ising spin glasses are not in the same universality class.
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