Title

Chaos and Universality in Two-Dimensional Ising Spin Glasses

Author(s)/Creator(s)

Alan Middleton, Syracuse UniversityFollow
Creighton K. Thomas, Texas A & M University - College Station
David A. Huse, Princeton University and Institute for Advanced Study

Document Type

Article

Date

12-15-2010

Language

English

Disciplines

Physics

Description/Abstract

Recently extended precise numerical methods and droplet scaling arguments allow for a coherent picture of the glassy states of two-dimensional Ising spin glasses to be assembled. The length scale at which entropy becomes important and produces "chaos", the extreme sensitivity of the state to temperature, is found to depend on the type of randomness. For the $\pm J$ model this length scale dominates the low-temperature specific heat. Although there is a type of universality, some critical exponents do depend on the distribution of disorder.

Additional Information

4 figures More information at http://arxiv.org/abs/1012.3444

Recommended Citation

Middleton, Alan; Thomas, Creighton K.; and Huse, David A., "Chaos and Universality in Two-Dimensional Ising Spin Glasses" (2010). Physics - All Scholarship. 176.
https://surface.syr.edu/phy/176

Source

Harvested from Arxiv.org

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