Nature of temperature chaos in spin glasses

Abstract

Temperature chaos (TC) in spin glasses has been claimed to exist no matter how small the temperature change, $\hat{I}”T$. However, experimental studies have exhibited a finite value of $\hat{I}”T$ for a transition to TC. This paper explores the onset of TC with much higher resolution than before and over a larger temperature range. We find that TC is always present, though small at the smallest $\hat{I}”T$ that we can reliably measure. However, it grows rapidly as $\hat{I}”T$ increases, the region of rapid growth coinciding with the $\hat{I}”T$ predicted from renormalization group arguments and observed experimentally. We are able to transcend the full range of TC, from the completely reversible state to one that is maximally decorrelated from the initially prepared state.