Temperature chaos as a logical consequence of the reentrant transition in spin glasses
Temperature chaos is a striking phenomenon in spin glasses, where even slight changes in temperature lead to a complete reconfiguration of the spin state. Another intriguing effect is the reentrant transition, in which lowering the temperature drives the system from a ferromagnetic phase into a less ordered spin-glass or paramagnetic phase. In the present paper, we reveal an unexpected connection between these seemingly unrelated phenomena in the finite-dimensional Edwards-Anderson model of spin glasses by introducing a generalized formulation that incorporates correlations among disorder variables. Assuming the existence of a spin-glass phase at finite temperature, we establish that temperature chaos arises as a logical consequence of reentrance in the Edwards-Anderson model. Our findings uncover a previously hidden mathematical structure relating reentrance and temperature chaos, offering a new perspective on the physics of spin glasses beyond the mean-field theory.
Authors
- Masayuki Ohzeki (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9151-2914)
- Manaka Okuyama (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8576-3191)
- Hidetoshi Nishimori (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0924-1463)
Institutions
- Tokyo Institute of Technology (JP)
- Tohoku University (JP)
- Shanghai Institute for Science of Science (CN)
- RIKEN (JP)
- Sigma Research (United States) (US)
- Institute of Science Tokyo (JP)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Physical review. E
- Published
- 2025-09-22
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1103/qp1w-qcbs
- Primary Topic
- Theoretical and Computational Physics
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00