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Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 207203 (2004) [4 pages]

Absence of an Almeida-Thouless Line in Three-Dimensional Spin Glasses

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A. P. Young1,* and Helmut G. Katzgraber2
1Department of Physics, University of California, Santa Cruz, California 95064, USA
2Theoretische Physik, ETH Hönggerberg, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland

Received 1 July 2004; published 11 November 2004

We present results of Monte Carlo simulations of the three-dimensional Edwards-Anderson Ising spin glass in the presence of a (random) field. A finite-size scaling analysis of the correlation length shows no indication of a transition, in contrast with the zero-field case. This suggests that there is no Almeida-Thouless line for short-range Ising spin glasses.

© 2004 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.207203
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.207203
PACS:
75.50.Lk, 05.50.+q, 75.40.Mg

*Electronic address: peter@bartok.ucsc.edu