We study the 3d Edwards-Anderson Ising spin glass on finite lattices by multicanonical ensemble. Performing simulations of this ensemble enables to generate large numbers of groundstate configurations in thermal equilibrium.
We performed numerical simulations of 2D and 3D Edwards-Anderson spin glass models by using the recently developed multicanonical ensemble. Our ergodicity times increase with the lattice size approximately as V3. The energy, entropy and other physical quantities are easily calculable at all temperatures from a single simulation. Their finite size scalings and the zero temperature limits are also explored.
We study zero-temperature properties of the three-dimensional Edwards-Anderson Ising spin glass on finite lattices up to size 123. Using multicanonical sampling we generate large numbers of ground-state configurations in thermal equilibrium. Finite-size scaling fits of the data are carried out for two hypothetical scenarios: Parisi mean-field theory versus a droplet scaling ansatz. With a zero-temperature scaling exponent y=0.72\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}0.12 the data are well described by the droplet scaling ansatz. Alternatively, a description in terms of the Parisi mean-field behavior is still possible. The two scenarios give significantly different predictions on lattices of size \ensuremath{\ge}123.
We report a high-precision finite-size scaling study of the critical behavior of the three-dimensional Ising Edwards-Anderson model (the Ising spin glass). We have thermalized lattices up to L=40 using the Janus dedicated computer. Our analysis takes into account leading-order corrections to scaling. We obtain Tc=1.1019(29) for the critical temperature, $\ensuremath{\nu}=2.562(42)$ for the thermal exponent, $\ensuremath{\eta}=\ensuremath{-}0.3900(36)$ for the anomalous dimension, and $\ensuremath{\omega}=1.12(10)$ for the exponent of the leading corrections to scaling. Standard (hyper)scaling relations yield $\ensuremath{\alpha}=\ensuremath{-}5.69(13)$, $\ensuremath{\beta}=0.782(10)$, and $\ensuremath{\gamma}=6.13(11)$. We also compute several universal quantities at Tc.