Evidence for Temperature Chaos in Spin Glasses

Abstract

We study the field cooled magnetization of a CuMn spin glass under temperature perturbations. The $T$-cycling curves are compared with the reference curve without temperature cycling. There is a crossover from the cumulative aging region to noncumulative aging region as the temperature change is increased. The cumulative aging range scales with the chaos length $\ell_\mathrm{c}$, becoming comparable to the correlation length, $ξ$, at the crossover boundary. The extracted chaos exponent, $ζ= 1.1$, is in agreement with theoretical predictions. Our results strongly suggest temperature chaos exists in real spin glasses system.