We investigate the low temperature phase of a vector spin glass in the limit of large component numbers
m of the spins, where this model is expected to be replica symmetric. On a Bethe lattice, a random graph with fixed and finite connectivity, we employ a self-consistent effective-field approach to the cavity method to describe equilibrium states of the system in terms of the configuration of cavity fields, which are reduced mean fields onto each spin. We make use of an iterative algorithm to find such equilibrium states for finite system sizes
N and observe a phase transition, which is indicated by an order parameter describing the preferred direction each spin points into in terms of the configuration of cavity, resp. mean local fields. On single realizations of Bethe lattices the transition is sharp and accompanied by the Generalized-Bose-Einstein condensation, in which the cavity, resp. local fields of the spins condense into a subspace of the available
m-dimensional space for large
m. The dimension of this subspace,
meff(T) depends on the temperature. Is either one or two right at the critical temperature and increases below. Furthermore, for fixed temperature it is expected to scale with the system size
N with an exponent
μm which depends on the connectivity. Averaging over many realizations of disorder we find
meff(Tc)=2 and
meff(T)∼Nμm. Even more, the cavity fields are subject to rotations in the low temperature phase, i.e. there is no freezing in time as generally expected. In case of
meff(Tc)=2 the whole configuration rotates at the critical temperature about the same angle and the same axis of rotation corresponding to a single droplet. In addition, we find replica symmetry breaking below the large-
m limit, i.e. for
meff(T)>m. These results are supported by results of parallel tempering Monte Carlo simulations. Replica symmetry breaking is further investigated by an analytical method in the large connectivity limit, where we compare the free energy in terms of spin-spin-correlations of different replicas calculated with a replica symmetric and a one-step broken replica symmetry ansatz. In the large-
m limit, we find that both solutions coexist for finite connectivities and that replica symmetry holds for full connectivity up to corrections in second order around the saddle point for
m→∞. In the last chapter we calculate the sample-to-sample fluctuations of the free energy of the SK model of the large-
m limit. We derive an exact connection between these fluctuations and bond chaos. Making use of a replica calculation for the {\it large deviations} and a scaling ansatz for the {\it small deviations}, we quantify bond chaos, i.e. calculate the probability of finding a given link overlap for two systems with possibly different sets of bonds. With this, we find the sample-to-sample fluctuations to scale with the number of spins,
N, with an exponent
μ in between
1/5 and
3/10.
Abstract. Zeros of the nth moment of the partition function [Z n] are investigated in a vanishing temperature limit β → ∞, n → 0 keeping y = βn ∼ O(1). In this limit, the moment parameterized by y characterizes the distribution of the ground-state energy. We numerically investigate the zeros for ±J Ising spin glass models with several ladder and tree systems, which can be carried out with a feasible computational cost by a symbolic operation based on the Bethe–Peierls method. For several tree systems we find that the zeros tend to approach the real axis of y in the thermodynamic limit implying that the moment cannot be described by a single analytic function of y as the system size tends to infinity, which may be associated with breaking of the replica symmetry. However, examination of the analytical properties of the moment function and assessment of the spin-glass susceptibility indicate that the breaking of analyticity is relevant to neither one-step or full replica symmetry breaking. § obuchi@stat.phys.titech.ac.jpComplex Replica Zeros of ±J Ising Spin Glass at Zero Temperature 2 1.
Finite-size effects in the mean-field Ising spin glass and the mean-field three-state Potts glass are investigated by Monte Carlo simulations. In the thermodynamic limit, each model is known to exhibit a continuous phase transition into the ordered state with a full and a one-step replica-symmetry breaking (RSB), respectively. In the Ising case, the Binder parameter g calculated for various finite sizes remains positive at any temperature and crosses at the transition point, while in the Potts case g develops a negative dip without showing a crossing in the g>0 region. By contrast, non-self-averaging parameters always remain positive and show a clear crossing at the transition temperature in both cases. Our finding suggests that care should be taken in interpreting the numerical data of the Binder parameter, particularly when the system exhibits a one-step-like RSB.
We present an exact analytic solution of the short-range interaction disordered quantum spherical model with symmetric binary $\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}J$ bond distribution on the Bethe lattice (with coordination number
z). We find the zero temperature quantum spin glass phase transition for coordinations $z\ensuremath{\ge}3$ but not for the one-dimensional system
(z=2). Quantum dynamics is examined via various correlation functions on the infinite tree which are evaluated in a closed form. The relationship between the results for a fully connected lattice $(z\ensuremath{\rightarrow}\ensuremath{\infty})$ and the usual mean-field approach is established.
We investigate the balanced
M=4,
p=4 spin-glass model for a one-dimensional long-range proxy for the finite dimensional short-range
p-spin glass model to examine the nature of the glass transition beyond mean-field theory. We perform large-scale Monte Carlo equilibrated simulations for both fully connected and power-law diluted versions of the model. The critical temperatures extracted from the finite-size scaling (FSS) analysis of spin-glass susceptibility are in good agreement with theoretical predictions for
σ=0,0.25, and 0.55. For these values of the long-range exponent
σ (which is the power of the decrease of the interactions between the spins with their separation), one might have expected that mean-field theory would provide a good description of the system. However, the spin-overlap distribution and the value of the
λ-parameter do not provide numerical evidence for a one-step replica symmetry breaking (1RSB) phase transition. Instead, our results indicate a direct transition from the paramagnetic state to a full replica symmetry broken phase, with a renormalized value of
λ≡ω2/ω1<1 suggesting a continuous FRSB transition, despite this ratio being equal to 2 at mean-field level. A value of
λ>1 is required for the discontinuous 1RSB transition. We argue that strong finite-size effects and closely spaced transition temperatures remove the expected 1RSB transition for the system sizes which we can study. For values of the exponent
σ=0.85, which roughly corresponds to a three dimensional system, we find that the renormalized value of
λ is again less than 1, with no signs of either the 1RSB transition or the continuous FRSB transition, suggesting that the Kauzmann temperature
TK in three dimensions might be zero and the complete absence of phase transitions in structural glasses.