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arXiv:cond-mat/0507555 · Europhysics Letters (EPL)

Disorder chaos in spin glasses

Florent Krząkała, Jean‐Philippe Bouchaud

Published Oct 4, 2005• 37 citations
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Abstract

We investigate numerically disorder chaos in spin glasses, i.e. the sensitivity of the ground state to small changes of the random couplings. Our study focuses on the Edwards-Anderson model in d=1,2,3 and in mean-field. We find that in all cases, simple scaling laws, involving the size of the system and the strength of the perturbation, are obeyed. We characterize in detail the distribution of overlap between ground states and the geometrical properties of flipped spin clusters in both the weak and strong chaos regime. The possible relevance of these results to temperature chaos is discussed.

DOI
10.1209/epl/i2005-10256-2

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Domain-wall free-energy δF\delta FδF, entropy δS\delta SδS, and the correlation function, CtempC_{\rm temp}Ctemp​, of δF\delta FδF are measured independently in the four-dimensional ±J\pm J±J Edwards-Anderson (EA) Ising spin glass. The stiffness exponent θ\thetaθ, the fractal dimension of domain walls dsd_{\rm s}ds​ and the chaos exponent ζ\zetaζ are extracted from the finite-size scaling analysis of δF\delta FδF, δS\delta SδS and CtempC_{\rm temp}Ctemp​ respectively well inside the spin-glass phase. The three exponents are confirmed to satisfy the scaling relation ζ=ds/2−θ\zeta=d_{\rm s}/2-\thetaζ=ds​/2−θ 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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We have simulated Edwards-Anderson (EA) as well as Sherrington-Kirkpatrick systems of L3{L}^{3}L3 spins. After averaging over large sets of EA system samples of $3\ensuremath{\le}L\ensuremath{\le}10$, we obtain accurate numbers for distributions p(q)p(q)p(q) of the overlap parameter qqq at very low-temperature TTT. We find $p(0)/T\ensuremath{\rightarrow}0.233(4)$ as $T\ensuremath{\rightarrow}0$. This is in contrast with the droplet scenario of spin glasses. We also study the number of mismatched links---between replica pairs---that come with large scale excitations. Contributions from small scale excitations are discarded. We thus obtain for the fractal dimension of outer surfaces of $q\ensuremath{\sim}0$ excitations in the EA model ${d}_{s}\ensuremath{\rightarrow}2.59(3)$ as $T\ensuremath{\rightarrow}0$. This is in contrast with ${d}_{s}\ensuremath{\rightarrow}3$ as $T\ensuremath{\rightarrow}0$ that is predicted by mean-field theory for the macroscopic limit.