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Journal of Applied Physics

Magnetic systems containing quenched, long-range, spherically symmetric impurities

Demetris Nicolaides

Published May 1, 2000• 0 citations
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Abstract

Magnetic systems containing randomly distributed fields with long-range correlations, decaying as a power law x−b exhibit new critical behavior at phase transitions in comparison to short-range random systems. When b<d+2, where d is the dimension of space, the critical behavior of the random system is the same as that of the pure one in an effective spatial dimension (b−2).

DOI
10.1063/1.372560

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