(Received ) This paper investigates the generalized McCoy-Wu type random Ising model. It is found that boundary magnetization behaves as (TciT) fl 0 , fl 0 = 1:0 just below the ’critical temperature’. From numerical analyses it is revealed that this type of critical behavior, fl 0 = 1:0, would be universal for any type of randomness. This universal behavior is explained in terms of the destruction of the devil’s staircase structure. As an observable result of this model, the integrated distribution function of boundary magnetization is suggested.
The effect of a discrete distribution of annealed random fields on the properties of the two-dimensional Ising model is studied. The random field is allowed to assume the values 0,\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}h with the probabilities
p0,${p}_{\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}}$, and a parameter \ensuremath{\mu} is introduced which is determined by specifying
p0. Exact results are obtained by mapping the model onto an effective Ising model on the rectangular lattice without field, and the probabilities
p0,${p}_{\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}}$ are expressed in terms of the magnetization and two-spin correlations of the effective model. It is shown that the long-range order is not destroyed by the random field and the transition temperature increases as
p0 decreases. For a given
p0 the critical temperature increases with the field strength and these combined effects show that the annealed random field favors the ordering of the system, therefore presenting behavior opposite to that expected for the system in a quenched random field.
The two-dimensional random bond Ising model with two distinct ferromagnetic nearest-neighbour couplings, J and J ', distributed randomly over the lattice with concentration 1/2 is studied for various ratios J '/ J at criticality. The critical temperature is exactly known from self-duality. The size-dependent specific heat shows a crossover from the perfect Ising to the randomness-dominated critical behaviour of doubly logarithmic form. In the latter region, our estimates for the critical exponents of the size-dependent magnetization and susceptibility are in very good agreement with analytic results suggesting β/ν = 1/8 and γ/ν = 7/4.