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arXiv:cond-mat/9811423 · Annalen der Physik

Energy barriers of spin glasses from multi-overlap simulations

Wolfhard Janke, Bernd A. Berg, Alain H. Billoire

Published Nov 1, 1998• 6 citations
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Abstract

We report large-scale simulations of the three-dimensional Edwards-Anderson Ising spin glass system using the recently introduced multi-overlap Monte Carlo algorithm. In this approach the temperature is fixed and two replica are coupled through a weight factor such that a broad distribution of the Parisi overlap parameter q is achieved. Canonical expectation values for the entire q-range (multi-overlap) follow by reweighting. We present an analysis of the performance of the algorithm and in particular discuss results on spin glass free-energy barriers which are hard to obtain with conventional algorithms. In addition we discuss the non-trivial scaling behavior of the canonical q-distributions in the broken phase.

DOI
10.1002/(sici)1521-3889(199811)7:5/6<544::aid-andp544>3.0.co;2-1

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For the Edwards-Anderson Ising spin-glass model in three and four dimensions (3d(3d(3d and 4d)4d)4d) we have performed high statistics Monte Carlo calculations of those free-energy barriers FBq{F}_{B}^{q}FBq​ which are visible in the probability density PJ(q){P}_{\mathcal{J}}(q)PJ​(q) of the Parisi overlap parameter q. The calculations rely on the recently introduced multioverlap algorithm. In both dimensions, within the limits of lattice sizes investigated, these barriers are found to be non-self-averaging and the same is true for the autocorrelation times of our algorithm. Further, we present evidence that barriers hidden in q dominate the canonical autocorrelation times.