13 research outputs found
Short-Time Critical Dynamics of Damage Spreading in the Two-Dimensional Ising Model
The short-time critical dynamics of propagation of damage in the Ising
ferromagnet in two dimensions is studied by means of Monte Carlo simulations.
Starting with equilibrium configurations at and magnetization
, an initial damage is created by flipping a small amount of spins in one
of the two replicas studied. In this way, the initial damage is proportional to
the initial magnetization in one of the configurations upon quenching the
system at , the Onsager critical temperature of the
ferromagnetic-paramagnetic transition. It is found that, at short times, the
damage increases with an exponent , which is much larger
than the exponent characteristic of the initial increase of the
magnetization . Also, an epidemic study was performed. It is found that
the average distance from the origin of the epidemic ()
grows with an exponent , which is the same,
within error bars, as the exponent . However, the survival
probability of the epidemics reaches a plateau so that . On the other
hand, by quenching the system to lower temperatures one observes the critical
spreading of the damage at , where all the measured
observables exhibit power laws with exponents , , and .Comment: 11 pages, 9 figures (included). Phys. Rev. E (2010), in press
Ground-state configuration space heterogeneity of random finite-connectivity spin glasses and random constraint satisfaction problems
We demonstrate through two case studies, one on the p-spin interaction model
and the other on the random K-satisfiability problem, that a heterogeneity
transition occurs to the ground-state configuration space of a random
finite-connectivity spin glass system at certain critical value of the
constraint density. At the transition point, exponentially many configuration
communities emerge from the ground-state configuration space, making the
entropy density s(q) of configuration-pairs a non-concave function of
configuration-pair overlap q. Each configuration community is a collection of
relatively similar configurations and it forms a stable thermodynamic phase in
the presence of a suitable external field. We calculate s(q) by the
replica-symmetric and the first-step replica-symmetry-broken cavity methods,
and show by simulations that the configuration space heterogeneity leads to
dynamical heterogeneity of particle diffusion processes because of the entropic
trapping effect of configuration communities. This work clarifies the fine
structure of the ground-state configuration space of random spin glass models,
it also sheds light on the glassy behavior of hard-sphere colloidal systems at
relatively high particle volume fraction.Comment: 26 pages, 9 figures, submitted to Journal of Statistical Mechanic
Scaling of spin avalanches in growing networks
Growing networks decorated with antiferromagnetically coupled spins are
archetypal examples of complex systems due to the frustration and the
multivalley character of their energy landscapes. Here we use the damage
spreading method (DS) to investigate the cohesion of spin avalanches in the
exponential networks and the scale-free networks. On the contrary to the
conventional methods, the results obtained from DS suggest that the avalanche
spectra are characterized by the same statistics as the degree distribution in
their home networks. Further, the obtained mean range of an avalanche, i.e.
the maximal distance reached by an avalanche from the damaged site, scales with
the avalanche size as , where and
. These values are true for both kinds of networks for the number
of nodes to which new nodes are attached between 4 and 10; a check for M=25
confirms these values as well.Comment: 10 pages, 9 figures. More data in Fig.
Study of Damage Propagation at the Interface Localization-Delocalization Transition of the Confined Ising Model
The propagation of damage in a confined magnetic Ising film, with short range
competing magnetic fields () acting at opposite walls, is studied by means
of Monte Carlo simulations. Due to the presence of the fields, the film
undergoes a wetting transition at a well defined critical temperature .
In fact, the competing fields causes the occurrence of an interface between
magnetic domains of different orientation. For ) such
interface is bounded (unbounded) to the walls, while right at the
interface is essentially located at the center of the film.
It is found that the spatio-temporal spreading of the damage becomes
considerably enhanced by the presence of the interface, which act as a
''catalyst'' of the damage causing an enhancement of the total damaged area.
The critical points for damage spreading are evaluated by extrapolation to the
thermodynamic limit using a finite-size scaling approach. Furthermore, the
wetting transition effectively shifts the location of the damage spreading
critical points, as compared with the well known critical temperature of the
order-disorder transition characteristic of the Ising model. Such a critical
points are found to be placed within the non-wet phase.Comment: 22 pages, 13 figures include
Damage spreading and ferromagnetic order in the three-dimensional ±J Edwards-Anderson spin glass model
Using information of the ground-state topology we show that the damage spreading technique unveils ferromagnetic order in the three-dimensional ±J Edwards-Anderson spin glass model. With spin-flipping dynamics damage spreads for temperatures larger than Tg, the glass transition temperature. With spin-orienting dynamics and for temperatures in Tg<T<Td, damage spreads over a finite region of the system, composed of finite clusters of ferromagnetic character. Td is the spin-orienting damage critical temperature, which is of the same order as the critical temperature of the ferromagnetic Ising model, Tc. The present results allow for an interpretation within a single framework of known —and sometimes puzzling— results, giving an intuitive picture for growing order in spin glasses
Hyperfine Characterization of Pure and Doped Zircons
The aim of this work has been to investigate the influence of two coloring dopant ions on the ZrSio4 host lattice, Pure, vanadium-doped and praseodymium-doped zircon powders have been synthesized by the ceramic method and analyzed using X-ray diffraction and perturbed angular correlations (PAC) hyperfine technique which probes the nearest environments of zirconium ions
Hyperfine Characterization of Pure and Doped Zircons
The aim of this work has been to investigate the influence of two coloring dopant ions on the ZrSio4 host lattice, Pure, vanadium-doped and praseodymium-doped zircon powders have been synthesized by the ceramic method and analyzed using X-ray diffraction and perturbed angular correlations (PAC) hyperfine technique which probes the nearest environments of zirconium ions