Random Interactions

Butterfly effect in frustrated magnets

by Prof. Subhro Bhattacharjee (ICTS-TIFR, Bangalore)

Asia/Kolkata
A304

A304

Description
Connections between many-body chaos and ergodicity form the basis of statistical mechanics. Starting with an overview of recent interests in this area, I shall discuss our numerical results characterising spatio-temporal signatures of chaos in spin systems and point out their possible quantitative connection to measures of transport such as diffusion coefficients. I shall discuss how the physics of frustration in classical spin systems help retain the signatures of chaos even at low temperatures.