%0 Journal Article %T Bimodal and Gaussian Ising spin glasses in dimension two %+ Laboratoire Charles Coulomb (L2C) %+ Physique Théorique (DPT) %A Lundow, P. H. %A Campbell, Ian %< avec comité de lecture %Z L2C:16-021 %@ 1539-3755 %J Physical Review E : Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics %I American Physical Society %V 93 %N 2 %P 022119 %8 2016-02-11 %D 2016 %R 10.1103/PhysRevE.93.022119 %Z Physics [physics]/Condensed Matter [cond-mat]/Disordered Systems and Neural Networks [cond-mat.dis-nn]Journal articles %X An analysis is given of numerical simulation data to size $L = 128$ on the archetype square lattice Ising spin glasses (ISGs) with bimodal $(±J )$ and Gaussian interaction distributions. It is well established that the ordering temperature of both models is zero. The Gaussian model has a nondegenerate ground state and thus a criticalexponent $η ≡ 0$, and a continuous distribution of energy levels. For the bimodal model, above a size-dependent crossover temperature $T∗(L)$ there is a regime of effectively continuous energy levels; below $T∗(L)$ there is a distinct regime dominated by the highly degenerate ground state plus an energy gap to the excited states.$T∗(L)$ tends to zero at very large $L$, leaving only the effectively continuous regime in the thermodynamic limit. The simulation data on both models are analyzed with the conventional scaling variable $t = T$ and witha scaling variable $\tau_b = T^2/(1 + T^2)$ suitable for zero-temperature transition ISGs, together with appropriate scaling expressions. The data for the temperature dependence of the reduced susceptibility $χ(\tau_b,L)$ and second moment correlation length $ξ (\tau_b,L)$ in the thermodynamic limit regime are extrapolated to the $\tau_b = 0$ critical limit.The Gaussian critical exponent estimates from the simulations, $η = 0$ and $ν = 3.55(5)$, are in full agreement with the well-established values in the literature. The bimodal critical exponents, estimated from the thermodynamic limit regime analyses using the same extrapolation protocols as for the Gaussian model, are $η = 0.20(2)$ and$ν = 4.8(3)$, distinctly different from the Gaussian critical exponents. %G English %2 https://hal.science/hal-01289849/document %2 https://hal.science/hal-01289849/file/PhysRe6.pdf %L hal-01289849 %U https://hal.science/hal-01289849 %~ CNRS %~ L2C %~ MIPS %~ UNIV-MONTPELLIER %~ UM-2015-2021