Local energy minima of the three-dimensional Edwards-Anderson spin-glass model
Stefan Schnabel  1@  , Wolfhard Janke  1@  
1 : Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Leipzig  -  Website
Brüderstr. 16 D-04103 Leipzig -  Germany

Spin glasses like the three-dimensional Edwards-Anderson model show a proverbial `glassy' behavior with very slow equilibration as the result of their rough energy landscape. I.e., an energy-function that contains a multitude of local minima or metastable states separated by energy barriers. We use a newly developed dynamical greedy algorithm [1] in combination with flat-histogram methods in order to sample the distribution of these minima and compare with theoretical predictions [2].

[1] S. Schnabel and W.Janke in preparation

[2] A. J. Bray and M. A. Moore, J. Phys. C 14 (1981) 1313


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