Nonequilibrium Work on Spin Glasses in Longitudinal and Transverse Fields
Nonequilibrium Work on Spin Glasses in Longitudinal and Transverse Fields
We derive a number of exact relations between equilibrium and nonequilibrium quantities for spin glasses in external fields using the Jarzynski equality and gauge symmetry. For randomly-distributed longitudinal fields, a lower bound is established for the work done on the system in nonequilibrium processes, and identities are proven to relate …