Physics – Condensed Matter – Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
Scientific paper
2005-02-08
Phys. Rev. B 73, 184405 (2006)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
4 pages, 6 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevB.73.184405
Energy barriers determine the dynamics in many physical systems like structural glasses, disordered spin systems or proteins. Here we present an approach, which is based on subdividing the configuration space in a hierarchical manner, leading to upper and lower bounds for the energy barrier separating two configurations. The fundamental operation is to perform a constrained energy optimization, where the degree of constraintness increases with the level in the hierarchy. As application, we consider Ising spin glasses, where the energy barrier which needs to be surmounted in order to flip a compact region of spins of linear dimension $L$ are expected to scale as $L^{\psi}$. The exponent $\psi$ is very hard to estimate from experimental and simulation studies. By using the new approach, applying efficient combinatorial matching algorithms, we are able to give the first non-trivial numerical bounds $0.25 < \psi < 0.54$ for the two-dimensional Ising spin glass.
Amoruso Carlo
Hartmann Alexander K.
Moore Anna M.
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