Critical phenomena of random spin systems: Second order ϵ-expansion

Ian D. Lawrie, Vladimir V. Prudnikov

Static and dynamic critical behaviour is studied for spin systems with quenched impurities that are correlated along an epsilon d -dimensional 'line' and randomly distributed in d- epsilon d dimensions. These impurities make the system anisotropic and modify its critical properties. Critical exponents are calculated at the second order of an expansion in epsilon and epsilon d (with epsilon =4-d). Although renormalisation-group functions depend on the ratio epsilon d /( epsilon + epsilon d ), critical exponents are found not to involve this ratio. Pade-like approximants are used to give numerical estimates for the exponents.

Hidetsugu Kitatani, 北谷 英嗣

Amnon Aharony A

Yoshitake Yamazaki

Critical behaviors in quenched random-spin systems with N-spin component are studied in the limit M → 0 of the non-random MN-component models by means of the renormalization group theory. As the static critical phenomena the stability of the fixed points is investigated and the critical exponents η[~ O(ε3); ε ≡ 4 – d], γ, α, and crossover index [Formula: see text] and the equation of state [~ O(ε)] are obtained. Within the approximation up to the order ε2, even the random-spin systems with N = 2 or 3 are unstable in the three dimensions and the pure systems are stable there.

Yoshitake Yamazaki

Ian D. Lawrie, YONKO T. MILLEV, Dimo I. Uzunov

Renormalisation group recursion relations are obtained to two-loop order for an n-component Landau-Ginzburg-Wilson model containing both hypercubic anisotropy and quenched random impurities. The fixed points are enumerated and their stability properties analysed, using the epsilon expansion about four spatial dimensions to second order. The existence of a new fixed point corresponding to an anisotropic impure system is reported. It is found that both isotropic and anisotropic pure systems are unstable to the addition of random impurities for n<n R identical to 4-4 epsilon +O( epsilon 2 ), while both pure and random isotropic systems are unstable to anisotropy for n>n C identical to 4-2 epsilon +O( epsilon 2 ). Singularities in the epsilon expansions for the exponents of the random fixed points are shown to be associated with the onset of focal behaviour (the acquisition of complex eigenvalues). These, together with the slow convergence of the expansions leads one to doubt the reliability of extrapolations to three dimensions.