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Journal of Physics C Solid State Physics

The critical behaviour of disordered magnetic systems-an exactly solvable model

A. P. Young

Published Jun 14, 1976• 16 citations
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Abstract

Exact analytic results are presented for the critical properties of the dilute Ising model on a Bethe lattice, where a fraction p of the sites are occupied at random by spins. It is found that the critical behaviour is the same as that of the pure system (p=1) except for transitions which occur by varying p at zero temperature, where the critical behaviour is different and corresponds to the percolation problem. For T to 0 and p to p c , the percolation concentration, the zero-field magnetization shows crossover behaviour of the form expected from scaling theories. Outside the critical region, a rapidly convergent numerical method is developed and used to calculate the spontaneous magnetization.

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10.1088/0022-3719/9/11/018

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The critical behavior of the dilute Ising model on a Bethe lattice of coordination zzz is studied in the percolation limit ($T\ensuremath{\rightarrow}0$) by means of a new moment-expansion procedure. Exact numerical results for the magnetization as a function of magnetic field at the critical concentration, p=pcp={p}_{c}p=pc​, are presented for z=3z=3z=3 and z=4z=4z=4. In particular, the critical exponent ${\ensuremath{\delta}}_{P}$ is expected to agree well for very low fields with the approximate value ${\ensuremath{\delta}}_{P}=2$ obtained by Essam et al. The nature of deviations from the value ${\ensuremath{\delta}}_{P}=2$ is discussed and their consequences are noted. The case $p\ensuremath{\ne}{p}_{c}$ is also discussed.
Changes in magnetic critical behaviour of quenched structurally-disordered magnets are usually exemplified in experiments and in MC simulations by diluted systems consisting of magnetic and non-magnetic components. In our study we aim to show that similar effects can be observed not only for diluted magnets with non-magnetic impurities but may be implemented, e.g., by the presence of two (and more) chemically different magnetic components as well. Therefore we consider a model of the structurally-disordered quenched magnet where all lattice sites are occupied by Ising-like spins of different lengths L. In such a random spin length Ising model, the length L of each spin is a random variable governed by the distribution function p(L). We demonstrate that this model belongs to the universality class of the site-diluted Ising model. This proves that both models are described by the same values of asymptotic critical exponents. However, their effective critical behaviour differs. As a case study, we consider a quenched mixture of two different magnets with values of elementary magnetic moments L1=1 and L2=s, and of concentration c and 1−c, correspondingly. We apply field-theoretical renormalization group approach to analyse the renormalization group flow for different initial conditions, triggered by s and c, and to calculate effective critical exponents further away from the fixed points of the renormalization group transformation. We show how the effective exponents are governed by difference in properties of the magnetic components.
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The critical relaxation of the magnetization in a two-dimensional Ising model with quenched random non-magnetic impurities has been studied by numerical simulation. A squared lattice of size 400 2 with spin concentrations p=1.0; 0.95, 0,9, 0.85, 0.8, 0.75 and 0.7 was considered. The dynamical critical exponent z was determined by the Monte Carlo method combined with the dynamical renormalization group method. The following values were received for z(p): z(1)=2.24+or-0.07, z(0.95)=2.24+or-0.06, z(0.9)=2.24+or-0.06, z(0.85)=2.38+or-0.05, z(0.8)=2.51+or-0.06, z(0.75)=2.66+or-0.07 and z(0.7)=2.88+or-0.06. A singular dynamic scaling behaviour with z=A' mod ln(p-p c ) mod +B' was found for systems with spin concentrations p<or=0.85 near the percolation threshold p c , where A'=0.56+or-0.07 and B'=1.62+or-0.07 are temperature-independent constants.