Spin glasses without time-reversal symmetry and the absence of a genuine structural glass transition

Details Spin glasses without time-reversal symmetry and the absence of a genuine structural glass transition Spin glasses without time-reversal symmetry and the absence of a genuine structural glass transition

2000-07-20

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0007315v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks

11 pages, 11 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.62.7690

We study the three-spin model and the Ising spin glass in a field using Migdal-Kadanoff approximation. The flows of the couplings and fields indicate no phase transition, but they show even for the three-spin model a slow crossover to the asymptotic high-temperature behaviour for strong values of the couplings. We also evaluated a quantity that is a measure of the degree of non-self-averaging, and we found that it can become large for certain ranges of the parameters and the system sizes. For the spin glass in a field the maximum of non-self-averaging follows for given system size a line that resembles the de Almeida-Thouless line. We conclude that non-self-averaging found in Monte-Carlo simulations cannot be taken as evidence for the existence of a low-temperature phase with replica-symmetry breaking. Models similar to the three-spin model have been extensively discussed in order to provide a description of structural glasses. Their theory at mean-field level resembles the mode-coupling theory of real glasses. At that level the one-step replica symmetry approach breaking predicts two transitions, the first transition being dynamical and the second thermodynamical. Our results suggest that in real finite dimensional glasses there will be no genuine transitions at all, but that some features of mean-field theory could still provide some useful insights.

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