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Replica Exchange Monte Carlo Simulations Of The Ising Spin Glass: Static And Dynamic Properties, Burcu Yucesoy
Replica Exchange Monte Carlo Simulations Of The Ising Spin Glass: Static And Dynamic Properties, Burcu Yucesoy
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Spin glasses have been the subject of intense study and considerable controversy for decades, and the low-temperature phase of short-range spin glasses is still poorly understood. Our main goal is to improve our understanding in this area and find an answer to the following question: Are there only a single pair or a countable infinity of pure states in the low temperature phase of the EA spin glass? To that aim we first start by introducing spin glasses and provide a brief history of their research, then proceed to describe our method of simulation, the parallel tempering Monte Carlo algorithm. …