C.M. Newman, D.L. Stein
Spatial Inhomogeneity and Thermodynamic Chaos
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ABSTRACT.  We present a coherent approach to the competition between
thermodynamic states in spatially inhomogeneous systems,
such as the Edwards-Anderson spin glass with a fixed
coupling realization.  This approach explains
and relates chaotic size dependence, ``dispersal
of the metastate'', and for replicas:  non-independence,
symmetry breaking, and overlap (non-)self-averaging.