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arXiv:1309.6438 · Physical Review B

Critical behavior of spin and chiral degrees of freedom in three-dimensional disordered XY models studied by the nonequilibrium aging method

FEDERICO J. ROMÁ, Daniel Domı́nguez

Published Jan 13, 2014• 4 citations
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Abstract

The critical behavior of the gauge-glass and the $XY$ spin-glass models in three dimensions is studied by analyzing their nonequilibrium aging dynamics. A new numerical method, which relies on the calculation of the two-time correlation and integrated response functions, is used to determine both the critical temperature and the nonequilibrium scaling exponents, both for spin and chiral degrees of freedom. First, the ferromagnetic $XY$ model is studied to validate this nonequilibirum aging method (NAM) since for this nondisordered system we can compare with known results obtained with standard equilibrium and nonequilibrium techniques. When applied to the case of the gauge-glass model, we show that the NAM allows us to obtain precise and reliable values of its critical quantities, improving previous estimates. The $XY$ spin-glass model with both Gaussian and bimodal bond distributions is analyzed in more detail. The spin and the chiral two-time correlation and integrated response functions are calculated in our simulations. The results obtained mainly for Gaussian and, to a lesser extent, for bimodal interactions support the existence of a spin-chiral decoupling scenario, where the chiral order occurs at a finite temperature while the spin degrees of freedom order at very low or zero temperature.

DOI
10.1103/physrevb.89.024408

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An extensive equilibrium Monte Carlo simulation is performed on the three-dimensional isotropic Heisenberg spin-glass (SG) model with the random nearest-neighbor Gaussian coupling, with particular interest in its chiral-glass (CG) and SG orderings. For this model, the possibility of the spin-chirality decoupling, i.e., the CG order setting in at a higher temperature than that of the SG order, was suggested earlier but still remains controversial. We simulate the model up to the maximum size (linear dimension) L=48L=48L=48 under both periodic and open boundary conditions (BCs). In locating the CG and SG transition temperatures TCG{T}_{\mathrm{CG}}TCG​ and TSG{T}_{\mathrm{SG}}TSG​ with the $L\ensuremath{\rightarrow}\ensuremath{\infty}$ extrapolation, a variety of independent physical quantities under both BCs are computed and utilized to get larger number of degrees of freedom (NDF). Because of the large NDF up to NDF=43\text{NDF}=43NDF=43, we succeed in obtaining stable and accurate estimates of the CG and SG transition temperatures, ${T}_{\mathrm{CG}}=0.142\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}0.001$ and ${T}_{\mathrm{SG}}=0.{131}_{\ensuremath{-}0.006}^{+0.001}$. No sign of the size crossover is observed. For larger LLL, the CG correlation length progressively outgrows the SG correlation length at low temperatures. These results provide strong numerical support for the spin-chirality decoupling. The critical exponents associated with the CG and SG transitions are evaluated using the finite-size scaling with the scaling correction. For the CG transition, we get the CG exponents, ${\ensuremath{\nu}}_{\mathrm{CG}}=1.36\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}0.10$ and ${\ensuremath{\eta}}_{\mathrm{CG}}=0.49\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}0.10$, consistent with the corresponding experimental exponents of canonical SG. Implications for the chirality scenario of experimental SG ordering are discussed.
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