The Ising Spin Glass in dimension four; non-universality

TL;DR

This study conducts extensive simulations of four-dimensional Ising Spin Glasses with various interaction distributions, revealing that critical exponents depend on the distribution type, indicating non-universality in this model.

Contribution

It provides detailed finite size scaling analyses and demonstrates that critical exponents vary with the interaction distribution, challenging the universality hypothesis in 4D ISGs.

Findings

Critical exponents depend on the interaction distribution.

Finite size scaling and thermodynamic analyses support non-universality.

Scaling expressions valid across the paramagnetic regime are established.

Abstract

Extensive simulations are made on Ising Spin Glasses (ISG) with Gaussian, Laplacian and bimodal interaction distributions in dimension four. Standard finite size scaling analyses near and at criticality provide estimates of the critical inverse temperatures $\beta_c$, critical exponents, and critical values of a number of dimensionless parameters. Independent estimates are obtained for $\beta_c$ and the exponent $\nu$ from thermodynamic derivative peak data. A detailed explanation is given of scaling in the thermodynamic limit with the ISG scaling variable $\tau = 1-\beta^2/\beta_c^2$ and the appropriate scaling expressions. Data over the entire paramagnetic range of temperatures are analysed in order to obtain further estimates of the critical exponents together with correction to scaling terms. The Privman-Fisher ansatz then leads to compact scaling expressions for the whole paramagnetic regime and for all sample sizes L. Comparisons between the 4d ISG models show that the critical dimensionless parameters characteristic of a universality class, and the susceptibility and correlation length critical exponents $\gamma$ and $\nu$, depend on the form of the interaction distribution. From these observations it can be deduced that critical exponents are not universal in ISGs, at least in dimension four.