期刊名称:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
印刷版ISSN:0027-8424
电子版ISSN:1091-6490
出版年度:2018
卷号:115
期号:20
页码:5129-5134
DOI:10.1073/pnas.1720832115
语种:English
出版社:The National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
摘要:We study numerically various properties of the free energy barriers in the Edwards–Anderson model of spin glasses in the low-temperature region in both three and four spatial dimensions. In particular, we investigated the dependence of height of free energy barriers on system size and on the distance between the initial and final states (i.e., the overlap distance). A related quantity is the distribution of large local fluctuations of the overlap in large 3D samples at equilibrium. Our results for both quantities (barriers and large deviations) are in agreement with the prediction obtained in the framework of mean-field theory. In addition, our result supports D l c = 2.5 as the lower critical dimension of the model.