219 research outputs found
3D Spin Glass and 2D Ferromagnetic XY Model: a Comparison
We compare the probability distributions and Binder cumulants of the overlap
in the 3D Ising spin glass with those of the magnetization in the ferromagnetic
2D XY model. We analyze similarities and differences. Evidence for the
existence of a phase transition in the spin glass model is obtained thanks to
the crossing of the Binder cumulant. We show that the behavior of the XY model
is fully compatible with the Kosterlitz-Thouless scenario. Finite size effects
have to be dealt with by using great care in order to discern among two very
different physical pictures that can look very similar if analyzed without
large attention.Comment: 14 pages and 6 figures. Also available at
http://chimera.roma1.infn.it/index_papers_complex.htm
Lennard-Jones binary mixture: a thermodynamical approach to glass transition
We study the liquid-glass transition of the Lennard-Jones binary mixture
introduced by Kob and Andersen from a thermodynamic point of view. By means of
the replica approach, translating the problem in the study of a molecular
liquid, we study the phase transition due to the entropy crisis and we find
that the Kauzmann's temperature \tk is . At the end we compare
analytical predictions with numerical results.Comment: 24 pages, 11 postscript figures. Revised version accepted for
pubblication on J. Chem. Phys. Numerical precision of the computations
improve
New evidence for super-roughening in crystalline surfaces with disordered substrate
We study the behavior of the Binder cumulant related to long distance
correlation functions of the discrete Gaussian model of disordered substrate
crystalline surfaces. We exhibit numerical evidence that the non-Gaussian
behavior in the low- region persists on large length scales, in agreement
with the broken phase being super-rough.Comment: 10 pages and 4 figures, available at
http://chimera.roma1.infn.it/index_papers_complex.html . We have extended the
RG discussion and minor changes in the tex
Inferring DNA sequences from mechanical unzipping: an ideal-case study
We introduce and test a method to predict the sequence of DNA molecules from
in silico unzipping experiments. The method is based on Bayesian inference and
on the Viterbi decoding algorithm. The probability of misprediction decreases
exponentially with the number of unzippings, with a decay rate depending on the
applied force and the sequence content.Comment: Source as TeX file with ps figure
A Solvable Model of a Glass
An analytically tractable model is introduced which exhibits both, a
glass--like freezing transition, and a collection of double--well
configurations in its zero--temperature potential energy landscape. The latter
are generally believed to be responsible for the anomalous low--temperature
properties of glass-like and amorphous systems via a tunneling mechanism that
allows particles to move back and forth between adjacent potential energy
minima. Using mean--field and replica methods, we are able to compute the
distribution of asymmetries and barrier--heights of the double--well
configurations {\em analytically}, and thereby check various assumptions of the
standard tunneling model. We find, in particular, strong correlations between
asymmetries and barrier--heights as well as a collection of single--well
configurations in the potential energy landscape of the glass--forming system
--- in contrast to the assumptions of the standard model. Nevertheless, the
specific heat scales linearly with temperature over a wide range of low
temperatures.Comment: 11 pages, latex, including 5 figures, talk presented at the XIV
Sitges Conferenc
Finite-temperature ordering in a two-dimensional highly frustrated spin model
We investigate the classical counterpart of an effective Hamiltonian for a
strongly trimerized kagome lattice. Although the Hamiltonian only has a
discrete symmetry, the classical groundstate manifold has a continuous global
rotational symmetry. Two cases should be distinguished for the sign of the
exchange constant. In one case, the groundstate has a 120^\circ spin structure.
To determine the transition temperature, we perform Monte-Carlo simulations and
measure specific heat, the order parameter as well as the associated Binder
cumulant. In the other case, the classical groundstates are macroscopically
degenerate. A thermal order-by-disorder mechanism is predicted to select
another 120^\circ spin-structure. A finite but very small transition
temperature is detected by Monte-Carlo simulations using the exchange method.Comment: 11 pages including 9 figures, uses IOP style files; to appear in J.
Phys.: Condensed Matter (proceedings of HFM2006
Multicanonical Study of the 3D Ising Spin Glass
We simulated the Edwards-Anderson Ising spin glass model in three dimensions
via the recently proposed multicanonical ensemble. Physical quantities such as
energy density, specific heat and entropy are evaluated at all temperatures. We
studied their finite size scaling, as well as the zero temperature limit to
explore the ground state properties.Comment: FSU-SCRI-92-121; 7 pages; sorry, no figures include
State Hierarchy Induced by Correlated Spin Domains in short range spin glasses
We generate equilibrium configurations for the three and four dimensional
Ising spin glass with Gaussian distributed couplings at temperatures well below
the transition temperature T_c. These states are analyzed by a recently
proposed method using clustering. The analysis reveals a hierarchical state
space structure. At each level of the hierarchy states are labeled by the
orientations of a set of correlated macroscopic spin domains. Our picture of
the low temperature phase of short range spin glasses is that of a State
Hierarchy Induced by Correlated Spin domains (SHICS). The complexity of the low
temperature phase is manifest in the fact that the composition of such a spin
domain (i.e. its constituent spins), as well as its identifying label, are
defined and determined by the ``location'' in the state hierarchy at which it
appears. Mapping out the phase space structure by means of the orientations
assumed by these domains enhances our ability to investigate the overlap
distribution, which we find to be non-trivial. Evidence is also presented that
these states may have a non-ultrametric structure.Comment: 30 pages, 17 figure
Critical Behavior of the Three-Dimensional Ising Spin Glass
We have simulated, using parallel tempering, the three dimensional Ising spin
glass model with binary couplings in a helicoidal geometry. The largest lattice
(L=20) has been studied using a dedicated computer (the SUE machine). We have
obtained, measuring the correlation length in the critical region, a strong
evidence for a second-order finite temperature phase transition ruling out
other possible scenarios like a Kosterlitz-Thouless phase transition. Precise
values for the and critical exponents are also presented.Comment: RevTex; 12 pages plus 5 ps figures. Final version to be published in
PR
Using network-flow techniques to solve an optimization problem from surface-physics
The solid-on-solid model provides a commonly used framework for the
description of surfaces. In the last years it has been extended in order to
investigate the effect of defects in the bulk on the roughness of the surface.
The determination of the ground state of this model leads to a combinatorial
problem, which is reduced to an uncapacitated, convex minimum-circulation
problem. We will show that the successive shortest path algorithm solves the
problem in polynomial time.Comment: 8 Pages LaTeX, using Elsevier preprint style (macros included
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