title: Spin and link overlaps in three-dimensional spin glasses.
abstract: Excitations of three-dimensional spin glasses are computed numerically. We find that one can flip a finite fraction of an LxLxL lattice with an O(1) energy cost, confirming the mean-field picture of a nontrivial spin overlap distribution P(q). These low energy excitations are not domain-wall-like, rather they are topologically nontrivial and they reach out to the boundaries of the lattice. Their surface to volume ratios decrease as L increases and may asymptotically go to zero. If so, link and window overlaps between the ground state and these excited states become "trivial."
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Modèles Statistiques, Université Paris-Sud, F-91405 Orsay, France.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Krzakala
authors.forename: O C
authors.initials: OC
authors.lastname: Martin