We consider two-dimensional Ising models with randomly distributed ferromagnetic bonds and study the local critical behavior at defect lines by extensive Monte Carlo simulations. Both for ladder and chain type defects, non-universal critical behavior is observed: the critical exponent of the defect magnetization is found to be a continuous function of the strength of the defect coupling. Analyzing corresponding stability conditions, we obtain new evidence that the critical exponent
ν of the bulk correlation length of the random Ising model does not depend on dilution, i.e.
ν=1.
The existence of nonuniversal, as well as surface (universal) critical behavior near a defect plane is demonstrated on a one-dimensional quantum lattice gas model, belonging to the two-dimensional Ising universality class. According to numerical results the weak defect region is attracted by a line of fixed points starting at the bulk critical point, while the strong defect region is controlled by a separate fixed point describing the surface transition of the model. This new kind of phase diagram is argued to be general for two-dimensional lattice gas models.
We study the critical behavior of the three-dimensional $\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}J$ Ising model [with random-exchange probability $P({J}_{xy})=p\ensuremath{\delta}({J}_{xy}\ensuremath{-}J)+(1\ensuremath{-}p)\ensuremath{\delta}({J}_{xy}+J)$] at the transition line between the paramagnetic and ferromagnetic phases, which extends from
p=1 to a magnetic-glassy multicritical point at $p={p}_{N}\ensuremath{\approx}0.768$. By a finite-size scaling analysis of Monte Carlo simulations at various values of
p in the region
pN<p<1, we provide strong numerical evidence that the critical behavior along the ferromagnetic transition line belongs to the same universality class as the three-dimensional randomly dilute Ising model. We obtain the results $\ensuremath{\nu}=0.682(3)$ and $\ensuremath{\eta}=0.036(2)$ for the critical exponents, which are consistent with the estimates $\ensuremath{\nu}=0.683(2)$ and $\ensuremath{\eta}=0.036(1)$ at the transition of randomly dilute Ising models.