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Setting Limits on Supersymmetry Using Simplified Models
Published on: November 15, 2013
Evidence for Supersymmetry in the Random-Field Ising Model at D=5
Nikolaos G Fytas1, Víctor Martín-Mayor2,3, Giorgio Parisi4
1Applied Mathematics Research Centre, Coventry University, Coventry CV1 5FB, United Kingdom.
Abstract:
We provide a nontrivial test of supersymmetry in the random-field Ising model at five spatial dimensions, by means of extensive zero-temperature numerical simulations. Indeed, supersymmetry relates correlation functions in a D-dimensional disordered system with some other correlation functions in a D-2 clean system. We first show how to check these relationships in a finite-size scaling calculation and then perform a high-accuracy test. While the supersymmetric predictions are satisfied even to our high accuracy at D=5, they fail to describe our results at D=4.
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