Instability of the ferromagnetic phase under random fields in an Ising spin glass with correlated disorder

Hidetoshi Nishimori

Published 2025-01-10Version 1

It is well established that the ferromagnetic phase remains stable under random magnetic fields in three and higher dimensions for the ferromagnetic Ising model and the Edwards-Anderson model of spin glasses without correlation in the disorder variables. We investigate an Ising spin glass with correlated disorder and demonstrate that the ferromagnetic phase on the Nishimori line becomes unstable under random fields in any dimension, provided that magnetic field chaos exists in the Edwards-Anderson model on the same lattice. This result underscores the profound impact of spatial correlations in the disorder. Additionally, we show that this instability can also be attributed to disorder (bond) chaos. Furthermore, we argue that the model with correlated disorder remains in the ferromagnetic phase even in the presence of symmetry-breaking fields, as long as the Edwards-Anderson model on the same lattice exhibits a spin glass phase under a magnetic field. These findings reveal fundamentally different properties of the ferromagnetic phase in models with correlation in disorder compared to those without.