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arXiv:2312.13042 · Journal of Physics A Mathematical and Theoretical

Gauge theory for quantum XYZ spin glasses

Chigak Itoi, Y Sakamoto

Published Jan 3, 2024• 1 citation
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Abstract

Abstract Nishimori’s gauge theory is extended to the quantum XYZ p-spin glass model in finite dimensions. This enables us to obtain useful correlation equalities, which show also that Duhamel correlation functions at an arbitrary temperature are bounded by those in the corresponding classical model on the Nishimori line. These bounds give that the spontaneous magnetization vanishes in any low temperature even if the model enters the Z 2 -symmetry broken spin glass phase. This theory explains well-known fact from experiments and numerical calculations that the magnetic susceptibility does not diverge in the spin glass transition. The new gauge theory together with the known phase diagram of the Edwards–Anderson model can specify the spin glass region in the coupling constant space of the quantum Heisenberg XYZ spin glass model.

DOI
10.1088/1751-8121/ad1a1d

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Spontaneous symmetry breaking phenomena in the transverse field mixed ppp-spin glass model in finite dimensions are studied with Nishimori's gauge theory. Useful identities in the gauge theory enable us to study Z2\mathbb Z_2Z2​-symmetry breaking. It is proven that ferromagnetic long-range order and spontaneous magnetization at an arbitrary temperature are bounded by those on the Nishimori line in the corresponding classical model. These bounds imply that neither ferromagnetic long-range order nor spontaneous magnetization exists in spin glass phase. It is proven also that the ferromagnetic susceptibility has an upper bound in paramagnetic and spin glass phases.
The gauge theory for random spin systems is extended to quantum spin glasses to derive a number of exact and/or rigorous results. The transverse Ising model and the quantum gauge glass are shown to be gauge invariant. For these models, an identity is proved that the expectation value of the gauge invariant operator in the ferromagnetic limit is equal to the one in the classical equilibrium state on the Nishimori line. As a result, a set of inequalities for the correlation function are proved, which restrict the location of the ordered phase. It is also proved that there is no long-range order in the two-dimensional quantum gauge glass in the ground state. The phase diagram for the quantum XY Mattis model is determined.
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Abstract We recently showed that the two-dimensional Ising spin glass allows for a line of renormalization group fixed points which explains properties observed in numerical studies. We observe that this exact result corresponds to enhancement to a one-generator continuous internal symmetry. This finally explains why no finite temperature transition to a spin glass phase is observed in two dimensions. In more than two dimensions, instead, the continuous symmetry can be broken spontaneously and yields a spin glass order parameter which, for fixed temperature and disorder strength, takes continuous values in an interval. Such a feature is shared by the order parameter of the known mean field solution of the model with infinite-range interactions, which corresponds to infinitely many dimensions.
We introduce an Ising spin-glass model with correlated disorder which continuously interpolates between the pure ferromagnetic Ising model and the Edwards-Anderson model with symmetric disorder. For this model, we prove that a Nishimori line (NL) can be defined, analogously to the Edwards-Anderson model, on which physical quantities can be expressed exactly in terms of those of the pure Ising model at a well-defined effective temperature on any lattice in any dimension. For example, the energy on the NL is equal to the energy of the pure Ising model at the effective temperature up to a constant and a trivial factor. More remarkably, the specific heat on the NL equals the energy, not the specific heat, of the pure Ising model at the effective temperature, again up to a constant and a trivial factor. Gauge-noninvariant quantities such as the magnetization and correlation functions are exactly equal to the corresponding quantities of the pure Ising model at the effective temperature. These exact relations imply that the leading critical behavior at that multicritical point for the disorder-correlated model is pure-Ising-like, in contrast to the conventional multicritical universality class of the standard Edwards-Anderson model. Our results motivate further investigations of the relatively unexplored topic of correlations in disorder in spin glasses and related problems.
The authors introduce a general class of random spin systems which are symmetric under local gauge transformations. Their model is a generalization of the usual Ising spin glass and includes the Z q , XY, and SU (2) gauge glasses. For this general class of systems, the internal energy and an upper bound on the specific heat are calculated explicitly in any dimensions on a special line in the phase diagram. Although the line intersects a phase boundary at a multicritical point, the internal energy and the bound on the specific heat are found to be written in terms of a simple function. They also show that the boundary between the ferromagnetic and nonferromagnetic phases is parallel to the temperature axis in the low-temperature region of the phase diagram. This means the absence of re-entrant transitions. All these properties are derived by simple applications of gauge transformations of spin and randomness degrees of freedom.