Aspect-ratio scaling and the stiffness exponent θ for Ising spin glasses -: art. no. 077201

We introduce the technique of aspect ratio scaling to study the scale dependence of interfacial energies in Ising spin glasses, and we show how one can use it to determine the stiffness exponent theta in a clean way, with results that are independent of the domain-wall-forcing boundary conditions imposed on the system. In space dimension d = 2 we obtain theta = -0.282(3) for a Gaussian distribution of exchange interactions.