Phase transitions between different spin-glass phases and between different chaoses in quenched random chiral systems

Abstract

The left-right chiral and ferromagnetic-antiferromagnetic double-spin-glass clock model with the crucially even number of states q = 4 and in three dimensions d = 3 has been studied by renormalization-group theory. We find for the first time to our knowledge four spin-glass phases including conventional chiral and quadrupolar spin-glass phases and phase transitions between spin-glass phases. The chaoses in the different spin-glass phases and in the phase transitions of the spin-glass phases with the other spin-glass phases with the non-spin-glass ordered phases and with the disordered phase are determined and quantified by Lyapunov exponents. It is seen that the chiral spin-glass phase is the most chaotic spin-glass phase. The calculated phase diagram is also otherwise very rich including regular and temperature-inverted devil's staircases and reentrances.