On the superposition principle and non-linear response in spin glasses

Abstract

The extended principle of superposition has been a touchstone of spin glass dynamics for almost thirty years. The Uppsala group has demonstrated its validity for the metallic spin glass, CuMn, for magnetic fields $H$ up to 10 Oe at the reduced temperature $T_{\mathrm{r}}=T/T_{\mathrm{g}}=0.95$, where $T_{\mathrm{g}}$ is the spin glass condensation temperature. For $H>10$ Oe, they observe a departure from linear response which they ascribe to the development of non-linear dynamics. The thrust of this paper is to develop a microscopic origin for this behavior by focusing on the time development of the spin glass correlation length, $\xi (t,t_{\mathrm{w}};H)$. Here, $t$ is the time after $H$ changes, and $t_{\mathrm{w}}$ is the time from the quench for $T>T_{\mathrm{g}}$ to the working temperature $T$ until $H$ changes. We connect the growth of $\xi (t,t_{\mathrm{w}};H)$ to the barrier heights $\Delta (t_{\mathrm{w}})$ that set the dynamics. The effect of $H$ on the magnitude of $\Delta (t_{\mathrm{w}})$ is responsible for affecting differently the two dynamical protocols associated with turning $H$ off (TRM, or thermoremanent magnetization) or on (ZFC, or zero field-cooled magnetization). In this paper, we display the difference between the zero-field cooled ${\xi }_{\text{ZFC}}(t,t_{\mathrm{w}};H)$ and the thermoremanent magnetization ${\xi }_{\text{TRM}}(t,t_{\mathrm{w}};H)$ correlation lengths as $H$ increases, both experimentally and through numerical simulations, corresponding to the violation of the extended principle of superposition in line with the finding of the Uppsala Group.

23 pages and 18 figures

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