Zero temperature phase diagram of finite connectivity spin glasses

Abstract

The zero temperature phase diagram of spin glasses on finite connectivity graphs is investigated, with or without magnetic field and/or ferromagnetic bias, for mean field (using the cavity method) and Edwards-Anderson (using numerical ground states computations) models. In the mean field case we show that the phase diagram is complex and compute the equivalent of the zero temperature de Almeida-Thouless line. In the 3d model however, we found a trivial phase diagram. This paper present new analytical results as well as a rapid review of numerical works on ground states.