Chaos in spin glasses

ORAL

Abstract

We study the effects of small temperature as well as disorder perturbations on the equilibrium state of three-dimensional Ising spin glasses via an alternate scaling ansatz. By using Monte Carlo simulations, we show that temperature and disorder perturbations yield chaotic changes in the equilibrium state and that temperature chaos is considerably harder to observe than disorder chaos. Results in two space dimensions are also discussed.

Authors

  • Helmut G. Katzgraber

    Theoretische Physik, ETH Zurich

  • Florent Krzakala

    Laboratoire P.C.T., ESPCI Paris