We consider two identical copies of a finite dimensional spin glass coupled at their boundaries. This allows to identify the analog for a spin glass of twisted boundary conditions in ferromagnetic system and it leads to a definition of an interface free energy that should scale with a positive power of the system size in the spin-glass phase. In this paper we study within mean-field theory the behavior of this interface at the spin-glass critical temperature T-c. We show that the leading scaling of the interface free energy may be obtained by simple scaling arguments using a cubic field theory of critical spin glasses and neglecting the replica symmetry-breaking dependence.
Critical interface: Twisting spin glasses at T-c / E., Brezin; S., Franz; Parisi, Giorgio. - In: PHYSICAL REVIEW. B, CONDENSED MATTER AND MATERIALS PHYSICS. - ISSN 1098-0121. - 82:14(2010). [10.1103/physrevb.82.144427]
Critical interface: Twisting spin glasses at T-c
PARISI, Giorgio
2010
Abstract
We consider two identical copies of a finite dimensional spin glass coupled at their boundaries. This allows to identify the analog for a spin glass of twisted boundary conditions in ferromagnetic system and it leads to a definition of an interface free energy that should scale with a positive power of the system size in the spin-glass phase. In this paper we study within mean-field theory the behavior of this interface at the spin-glass critical temperature T-c. We show that the leading scaling of the interface free energy may be obtained by simple scaling arguments using a cubic field theory of critical spin glasses and neglecting the replica symmetry-breaking dependence.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.