Extended droplet theory for aging in short-ranged spin glasses and a numerical examination

TL;DR

This paper investigates aging in a four-dimensional spin glass model through Monte Carlo simulations, testing an extended droplet theory that accounts for anomalously soft droplets and domain walls, and finds good agreement with theoretical predictions.

Contribution

The study extends the droplet theory to include anomalously soft droplets and verifies its predictions through detailed numerical simulations.

Findings

Scaling laws match the extended droplet theory

Separation of time translational invariance and fluctuation-dissipation theorem observed

Simulation results support the extended droplet theory scenario

Abstract

We analyze isothermal aging of a four dimensional Edwards-Anderson model in detail by Monte Carlo simulations. We analyze the data in the view of an extended version of the droplet theory proposed recently (cond-mat/0202110) which is based on the original droplet theory plus conjectures on the anomalously soft droplets in the presence of domain walls. We found that the scaling laws including some fundamental predictions of the original droplet theory explain well our results. The results of our simulation strongly suggest the separation of the breaking of the time translational invariance and the fluctuation dissipation theorem in agreement with our scenario.