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Temperature Chaos and Bond Chaos in the Edwards-Anderson Ising Spin Glass : Domain-Wall Free-Energy Measurements

M. Sasaki, Koji Hukushima, Hajime Yoshino, H. Takayama

Published Jan 1, 2005• 0 citations
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Abstract

Domain-wall free-energy $\delta F$, entropy $\delta S$, and the correlation function, $C_{\rm temp}$, of $\delta F$ are measured independently in the four-dimensional $\pm J$ Edwards-Anderson (EA) Ising spin glass. The stiffness exponent $\theta$, the fractal dimension of domain walls $d_{\rm s}$ and the chaos exponent $\zeta$ are extracted from the finite-size scaling analysis of $\delta F$, $\delta S$ and $C_{\rm temp}$ respectively well inside the spin-glass phase. The three exponents are confirmed to satisfy the scaling relation $\zeta=d_{\rm s}/2-\theta$ derived by the droplet theory within our numerical accuracy. We also study bond chaos induced by random variation of bonds, and find that the bond and temperature perturbations yield the universal chaos effects described by a common scaling function and the chaos exponent. These results strongly support the appropriateness of the droplet theory for the description of chaos effect in the EA Ising spin glasses.

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Spin glasses have competing interactions that lead to a rough energy landscape which is highly susceptible to small perturbations. These chaotic effects strongly affect numerical simulations and, as such, gaining a deeper understanding of chaos in spin glasses is of much importance. The use of thermal boundary conditions is an effective approach to study chaotic phenomena. Here we generalize population annealing Monte Carlo, combined with thermal boundary conditions, to study bond chaos due to small perturbations in the spin-spin couplings of the three-dimensional Edwards-Anderson Ising spin glass. We show that bond and temperature-induced chaos share the same scaling exponents and that bond chaos is stronger than temperature chaos.
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