Disappearance of the de Almeida-Thouless line in six dimensions

M. A. Moore, A. J. Bray

Published 2011-02-08, updated 2011-05-24Version 3

We show that the Almeida-Thouless line in Ising spin glasses vanishes when their dimension d -> 6 as h_{AT}^2/T_c^2 = C(d-6)^4(1- T/T_c)^{d/2 - 1}, where C is a constant of order unity. An equivalent result which could be checked by simulations is given for the one-dimensional Ising spin glass with long-range interactions. It is shown that replica symmetry breaking also stops as d -> 6.