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Spin Glasses: Experimental Signatures and Salient Outcomes

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Within the wide class of disordered materials, spin glasses occupy a special place because of their conceptually simple definition of randomly interacting spins. Their modelling has triggered spectacular developments of out-of-equilibrium statistical physics, as well analytically as numerically, opening the way to a new vision of glasses in general. “Real” spin glasses are disordered magnetic materials which can be very diverse from the chemist’s point of view, but all share a number of common properties, laying down the definition of generic spin glass behavior. This paper aims at giving to nonspecialist readers an idea of what spin glasses are from an experimentalist’s point of view, describing as simply as possible their main features as they can be observed in the laboratory, referring to numerous detailed publications for more substantial discussions and for all theoretical developments, which are hardly sketched here. We strived to provide the readers who are interested in other glassy materials with some clues about the potential of spin glasses for improving their understanding of disordered matter. At least, arousing their curiosity for this fascinating subject will be considered a success.

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    See numerous references in “Spin glasses and random fields”, A.P. Young Editor, Series on Directions in Condensed Matter Physics Vol. 12, World Scientific (1998).

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    In structural glasses, it has been found that T 0 from the Vogel-Fulcher law is close to the Kauzman temperature T K, at which the measured configurational entropy extrapolates to zero. And, in the “Random First Order Transition” scenario, T K is the critical point at which the size of the glassy ordered domains diverges [18].

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The authors are grateful to J.-P. Bouchaud, H. Bouchiat, H. Kawamura, F. Ladieu, S. Miyashita, S. Nakamae, P. Nordblad, Y. Tabata, T. Taniguchi, and H. Yoshino for recent discussions and helpful suggestions concerning this manuscript. EV is thankful to the University of Tokyo for kind hospitality during the most part of the writing.

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Vincent, E., Dupuis, V. (2018). Spin Glasses: Experimental Signatures and Salient Outcomes. In: Lookman, T., Ren, X. (eds) Frustrated Materials and Ferroic Glasses. Springer Series in Materials Science, vol 275. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96914-5_2

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