Title
Ising spin glasses on Wheatstone-Bridge hierarchical lattices
Date Issued
05 April 2010
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Agostini B.T.
Nobre F.D.
National Institute of Science and Technology for Complex Systems
Publisher(s)
Elsevier
Abstract
Nearest-neighbor-interaction Ising spin glasses are studied on three different hierarchical lattices, all of them belonging to the Wheatstone-Bridge family. It is shown that the spin glass lower critical dimension in these lattices should be greater than 2.32. Finite-temperature spin glass phases are found for a lattice of fractal dimension D ≈ 3.58 (whose unit cell is obtained from a simple construction of a part of the cubic lattice), as well as for a lattice of fractal dimension close to five. In the former case, the estimates of spin glass critical temperatures associated with symmetric Gaussian and bimodal distributions are very close to recent results from extensive numerical simulations carried on a cubic lattice, suggesting that whole phase diagrams presented, obtained for couplings following non-centered distributions - not known up to the moment for Bravais lattices - should represent good approximations. © 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Start page
1631
End page
1635
Volume
374
Issue
15-16
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Óptica Física y Astronomía
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-77949291894
Source
Physics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics
ISSN of the container
03759601
Sponsor(s)
We thank Prof. E.M.F. Curado for fruitful conversations. The partial financial supports from CNPq and Pronex/MCT/FAPERJ (Brazilian agencies) are acknowledged.
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