arXiv:1004.0303 · Physical Review B
Monte Carlo study of the two-dimensional site-diluted dipolar Ising model
Juan J. Alonso, B. Allés
Abstract
By tempered Monte Carlo simulations, we study two-dimensional site-diluted dipolar Ising systems. Dipoles are randomly placed on a fraction $x$ of all ${L}^{2}$ sites in a square lattice and point along a common crystalline axis. For ${x}_{c}<x\ensuremath{\le}1$, where ${x}_{c}=0.79(5)$, we find an antiferromagnetic phase below a temperature which vanishes as $x\ensuremath{\rightarrow}{x}_{c}$ from above. At lower values of $x$, we study (i) distributions of the spin glass (SG) overlap $q$, (ii) their relative mean-square deviation ${\ensuremath{\Delta}}_{q}^{2}$ and kurtosis, and (iii) ${\ensuremath{\xi}}_{L}/L$, where ${\ensuremath{\xi}}_{L}$ is a SG correlation length. From their variation with temperature and system size, we find that the paramagnetic phase covers the entire $T>0$ range. Our results enable us to obtain an estimate of the critical exponent associated to the correlation length at $T=0$, $1/\ensuremath{\nu}=0.35(10)$.