Temperature chaos in a replica symmetry broken spin glass model - A hierarchical model with temperature chaos -

M. Sasaki, O. C. Martin

Published 2002-06-17, updated 2002-09-18Version 2

Temperature chaos is an extreme sensitivity of the equilibrium state to a change of temperature. It arises in several disordered systems that are described by the so called scaling theory of spin glasses, while it seems to be absent in mean field models. We consider a model spin glass on a tree and show that although it has mean field behavior with replica symmetry breaking, it manifestly has ``strong'' temperature chaos. We also show why chaos appears only very slowly with system size.