Monday, January 7, 2013

1210.6290 (Burcu Yucesoy et al.)

Correlations between the dynamics of parallel tempering and the
free-energy landscape in spin glasses
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Burcu Yucesoy, Jonathan Machta, Helmut G. Katzgraber
We present the results of a large-scale numerical study of the equilibrium three-dimensional Edwards-Anderson Ising spin glass with Gaussian disorder. Using parallel tempering (replica exchange) Monte Carlo we measure various static, as well as dynamical quantities, such as the autocorrelation times and round-trip times for the parallel tempering Monte Carlo method. The correlation between static and dynamic observables for 5000 disorder realizations and up to 1000 spins down to temperatures at 20% of the critical temperature is examined. Our results show that autocorrelation times are directly correlated with the roughness of the free-energy landscape.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.6290

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