Title

Energetics and Geometry of Excitations in Random Systems

Author(s)/Creator(s)

Alan Middleton, Syracuse UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Date

7-24-2000

Language

English

Disciplines

Physics

Description/Abstract

Methods for studying droplets in models with quenched disorder are critically examined. Low energy excitations in two dimensional models are investigated by finding minimal energy interior excitations and by computing the effect of bulk perturbations. The numerical data support the assumptions of compact droplets and a single exponent for droplet energy scaling. Analytic calculations show how strong corrections to power laws can result when samples and droplets are averaged over. Such corrections can explain apparent discrepancies in several previous numerical results for spin glasses

Additional Information

4 pages, eps files included More information at http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0007375

Recommended Citation

Middleton, Alan, "Energetics and Geometry of Excitations in Random Systems" (2000). Physics - All Scholarship. 194.
https://surface.syr.edu/phy/194

Source

Harvested from Arxiv.org

Creative Commons License

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