Authors: Ronald Fisch
Publish Date: 2006/07/26
Volume: 125, Issue: 3, Pages: 777-792
Abstract
For L × L square lattices with L ≤ 20 the 2D Ising spin glass with +1 and −1 bonds is found to have a strong correlation between the energy and the entropy of its ground states A fit to the data gives the result that each additional broken bond in the ground state of a particular sample of random bonds increases the ground state degeneracy by approximately a factor of 10/3 For x=05 where x is the fraction of negative bonds over this range of L the characteristic entropy defined by the energyentropy correlation scales with size as L 1782 Anomalous scaling is not found for the characteristic energy which essentially scales as L 2 When x=025 a crossover to L 2 scaling of the entropy is seen near L=12 The results found here suggest a natural mechanism for the unusual behavior of the low temperature specific heat of this model and illustrate the dangers of extrapolating from small L
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