Finite-Size Scaling in the Energy-Entropy Plane for the 2D +- J Ising Spin Glass

Abstract

For $L\times L$ square lattices with $L\le 20$ the 2D Ising spin glass with +1 and -1 bonds is found to have a strong correlation between the energy and the entropy of its ground states. A fit to the data gives the result that each additional broken bond in the ground state of a particular sample of random bonds increases the ground state degeneracy by approximately a factor of 10/3. For $x=0.5$ (where $x$ is the fraction of negative bonds), over this range of $L$, the characteristic entropy defined by the energy-entropy correlation scales with size as $L^{1.78(2)}$. Anomalous scaling is not found for the characteristic energy, which essentially scales as $L^2$. When $x=0.25$, a crossover to $L^2$ scaling of the entropy is seen near $L=12$. The results found here suggest a natural mechanism for the unusual behavior of the low temperature specific heat of this model, and illustrate the dangers of extrapolating from small $L$.

9 pages, two-column format; to appear in J. Statistical Physics

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