We study the critical temperatures obtained from the Migdal-Kadanoff (MK) renormalization transformation scheme for various ferromagnetic and frustrated Ising systems. We point out various problems in previous arguments and methods for obtaining the ordering temperatures for spin glasses using...

Ising spin glasses are studied, at zero temperature, on a hierarchical lattice as an approach to the square lattice. The stiffness exponent y, which governs the behavior of the interactions under changes of scale, is computed for several distinct continuous symmetric probability distributions...

Based on a recently developed algorithm for the exploration of ground states in bond-diluted lattice spin glasses, we determine the scaling of defect energies with system size for Ising spin glasses at the bond percolation threshold pc. The results can be related by well-known scaling relations...

We demonstrate that there is an intimate relationship between the magnetic properties of Derrida’s random energy model (REM) of spin glasses and the problem of joint source–channel coding in Information Theory. In particular, typical patterns of erroneously decoded messages in the coding...