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Monte Carlo Simulation of Spin Glasses

The interesting behavior in a spin glass occurs at very low temperature, so we want to do a Monte Carlo simulation of an Ising spin glass at low T.

Suppose we adopt the usual MC approach --- generate an initial random configuration of spins, and then start running the simulation at the temperature T where we want to study the system. After some thermalization time , the system will reach thermal equilibrium, and we can start taking measurements as usual.

Right? Well, not exactly.



Paul Coddington, Northeast Parallel Architectures Center at Syracuse University, paulc@npac.syr.edu