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Ground State Structure of Spin Glasses

Matteo Palassini, A. P. Young

cond-mat.dis-nnarXiv:cond-mat/9910278

Abstract

We investigate the ground state structure of Ising spin glasses in zero magnetic field by determining how the ground state changes in a fixed finite block far from the boundaries when the boundary conditions are changed. We find, both in two and three dimensions, that the probability of a change in the block ground state configuration tends to zero as the system size tends to infinity. This indicates a trivial ground state structure, as predicted by the droplet theory.

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