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American Physical Society, Physical Review Letters, 14(85), p. 3013-3016, 2000

DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.85.3013

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Spin and Link Overlaps in Three-Dimensional Spin Glasses

Journal article published in 2000 by F. Krzakala ORCID, O. C. Martin
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Abstract

Excitations of three-dimensional spin glasses are computed numerically. We find that one can flip a finite fraction of an LxLxL lattice with an O(1) energy cost, confirming the mean-field picture of a nontrivial spin overlap distribution P(q). These low energy excitations are not domain-wall-like, rather they are topologically nontrivial and they reach out to the boundaries of the lattice. Their surface to volume ratios decrease as L increases and may asymptotically go to zero. If so, link and window overlaps between the ground state and these excited states become "trivial."