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Physical review. B, Condensed matter

Critical and thermodynamic properties of the randomly dilute Ising model

Ciriyam Jayaprakash, Eberhard K. Riedel, Michael Wortis

Published Sep 1, 1978• 114 citations
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Abstract

The randomly bond-dilute two-dimensional nearest-neighbor Ising model on the square lattice is studied by renormalization-group methods based on the Migdal-Kadanoff approximate recursion relations. Calculations give both thermal and magnetic exponents associated with the percolative fixed point. Differential recursion relations yield a phase diagram which is in quantitative agreement with all known results. Curves for the specific heat, percolation probability, and magnetization are displayed. The critical region of the specific heat becomes unobservably narrow well above the percolation threshold ${p}_{c}$. This provides a possible explanation for the apparent specific-heat rounding in certain experiments.

DOI
10.1103/physrevb.18.2244

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We have performed Monte Carlo calculations of the thermodynamic properties of the bond-dilute Ising model on the square lattice. The results are obtained for the magnetization, internal energy, specific heat, and susceptibility for several concentrations of missing bonds. The dependence of the Curie temperature on dilution is in good agreement with the results obtained by other methods. The phase transition is found to remain sharp with the same value of the susceptibility exponent as for the pure Ising model.
"Renorma1ization-group methods have been applied in the study of quenched random magnetic systems in recent years. We begin with a brief review of second-order phase transitions in pure, homogeneous systems and also of the .. renorma1ization group framework. Then we provide an introduction to quenched random magnetic systems. Next, momentum-space methods and position-space techniques as applied to quenched random magnets are outlined and compared. Grinstein and Luther applied the Wilson-Fisher E-expansion to random n-vector models; Khme1'nitsky discovered that the random Ising model (n = 1) possessed a ""random"" fixed point of 0(squareroot(e)). This fixed point was found to have one marginal and one irrelevant operator. We have investigated the stability of this fixed point using Ca11an-Symanzik equations and renorma1ized perturbation theory. We find the fixed point stable in the next order; we have also obtained critical exponents to one higher order. Next, position-space techniques are used to study some simple model systems. In addition to critical exponents, global thermodynamic properties are determined. These calculations are based on the Migda1-Kadanoff approximate recursion relations suitably generalized to the inhomogeneous case. Firstly we study the randomly bond-dilute two-dimensional nearest- neighbor Ising model on a square lattice. Calculations give both thermal and magnetic exponents associated with the percolative fixed point. Differential recursion relations yield a phase diagram which is in quantitative agreement with all known results. Curves for the specific heat, percolation probability, and magnetization are displayed. The critical region of the specific heat becomes unobservably narrow well above the percolation threshold Pc. This provides a possible explanation for the apparent specific-heat rounding in certain experiments. We then study the Edwards-Anderson model of a spin glass. The current theoretical situation, which is far from satisfactory at present, is briefly reviewed. We treat the spin-l/2 Ising model with independently random nearestneighbor interactions in dimensionalities d = 2, 3, and 4. The phase diagram, which is in qualitative agreement with mean-field results, exhibits paramagnetic, ferromagnetic, antiferromagnetic, and spin-glass phases. The spinglass and paramagnetic phases meet along an extended second-order phase boundary, which terminates in two tricritical points. Critical and tricritical exponents are calculated. The spin-glass specific-heat exponent turns out to be large and negative, compatibly with recent experiments which show a rounded specific heat anomaly. Global specific-heat curves are also displayed for d = 2."
The critical properties of Potts models with random bonds are considered in two dimensions. A position-space renormalization-group procedure, based on the Migdal-Kadanoff method, is developed. While all previous position-space calculations satisfied the Harris criterion and the resulting scaling relation only approximately, we found conditions under which these relations are exactly satisfied, and constructed our renormalization-group procedure accordingly. Numerical results for phase diagrams and thermodynamic functions for various random-bond Potts models are presented. In addition, some exact results obtained using a duality transformation, as well as an heuristic derivation of scaling properties that correspond to the percolation problem are given.