Spin Domains Generate Hierarchical Ground State Structure inSpin Glasses
- 2 April 2001
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 86 (14) , 3148-3151
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.86.3148
Abstract
Unbiased samples of ground states were generated for the short-range Ising spin glass with , in three dimensions. Clustering the ground states revealed their hierarchical structure, which is explained by correlated spin domains, serving as cores for macroscopic zero energy “excitations.”
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