Temperature chaos may emerge many thermodynamic states in spin glasses

Fuente: arXiv
Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wang, Wenlong
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
Subjects:
Online Access:
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
_version_ 1866909607500185600
author Wang, Wenlong
author_facet Wang, Wenlong
contents We present a large-scale simulation of the three-dimensional and mean-field spin glasses down to a very low but finite temperature. We extrapolate pertinent observables, e.g., the disorder-averaged central weight to zero temperature, finding that many thermodynamic states at a finite temperature and two ground states at zero temperature are fully compatible. While the disorder-averaged central weight monotonically decreases with decreasing temperature, this is far from true for individual samples. This motivates us to link this behaviour with the well-known temperature chaos. At an observing temperature, a sample may or may not have pure state coexistence depending on whether it is undergoing temperature chaos, which is a random process. Therefore, temperature chaos is likely responsible for the emergence of many pure states, providing a natural and intuitive explanation for the coexistence of expensive domain-wall excitations and many pure states at the disorder-averaged level.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2505_07038
institution arXiv
publishDate 2025
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle Temperature chaos may emerge many thermodynamic states in spin glasses
Wang, Wenlong
Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
Statistical Mechanics
We present a large-scale simulation of the three-dimensional and mean-field spin glasses down to a very low but finite temperature. We extrapolate pertinent observables, e.g., the disorder-averaged central weight to zero temperature, finding that many thermodynamic states at a finite temperature and two ground states at zero temperature are fully compatible. While the disorder-averaged central weight monotonically decreases with decreasing temperature, this is far from true for individual samples. This motivates us to link this behaviour with the well-known temperature chaos. At an observing temperature, a sample may or may not have pure state coexistence depending on whether it is undergoing temperature chaos, which is a random process. Therefore, temperature chaos is likely responsible for the emergence of many pure states, providing a natural and intuitive explanation for the coexistence of expensive domain-wall excitations and many pure states at the disorder-averaged level.
title Temperature chaos may emerge many thermodynamic states in spin glasses
topic Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
Statistical Mechanics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.07038