Discrete-Bond Ising Spin Glass on the Face-Centered Cubic Lattice
R. E. Hetzel, R. N. Bhatt, Rajiv R. P. Singh
We explore the behavior of the nearest-neighbor Ising spin glass with discrete bonds (± J ) on the face-centered cubic lattice using both Monte Carlo simulations and high-temperature expansions. A phase transition to a spin glass phase is found in zero magnetic field ( H ) at a nonzero temperature ( T = T c ), with critical exponents close to that for the simple cubic lattice. In the ( H, T )-plane, the contours of constant spin glass susceptibility show an upturn towards higher H at the lowest T , consistent with the possibility of a de Almeida-Thouless line of phase transitions in a field. Further, the upturn is similar to those on the simple cubic lattice and less pronounced than on the four-dimensional hypercubic lattice, despite the higher coordination number of the f.c.c. lattice, suggesting that the upturn is a dimension-related property.
Europhysics Letters (EPL)•May 10, 1993•10 citations