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arXiv:cond-mat/0204225 · Physical review. B, Condensed matter

Dynamical critical phenomena in three-dimensional Heisenberg spin glasses

Mitsuhiro Matsumoto, Koji Hukushima, Hajime Takayama

Published Sep 4, 2002• 22 citations
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Abstract

Spin-glass (SG) and chiral-glass (CG) orderings in three-dimensional (3D) Heisenberg spin glass with and without magnetic anisotropy are studied by using large-scale off-equilibrium Monte Carlo simulations. A characteristic time of relaxation, which diverges at a transition temperature in the thermodynamic limit, is obtained as a function of the temperature and the system size. Based on the finite-size-scaling analysis for the relaxation time, it is found that in the isotropic Heisenberg spin glass, the CG phase transition occurs at a finite temperature, while the SG transition occurs at a lower temperature, which is compatible with zero. Our results of the anisotropic case support the chirality scenario for the phase transitions in the 3D Heisenberg spin glasses.

DOI
10.1103/physrevb.66.104404

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Spin-glass and chiral-glass orderings in three-dimensional Heisenberg spin glasses are studied with and without random magnetic anisotropy by dynamical Monte Carlo simulations. In the isotropic case, clear evidence of a finite-temperature chiral-glass transition is presented. While the spin autocorrelation exhibits only an interrupted aging, the chirality autocorrelation persists to exhibit a pronounced aging effect reminiscent of the one observed in the mean-field model. In the anisotropic case, asymptotic mixing of the spin and the chirality is observed in the off-equilibrium dynamics.
An extensive equilibrium Monte Carlo simulation is performed on the three-dimensional isotropic Heisenberg spin-glass (SG) model with the random nearest-neighbor Gaussian coupling, with particular interest in its chiral-glass (CG) and SG orderings. For this model, the possibility of the spin-chirality decoupling, i.e., the CG order setting in at a higher temperature than that of the SG order, was suggested earlier but still remains controversial. We simulate the model up to the maximum size (linear dimension) L=48L=48L=48 under both periodic and open boundary conditions (BCs). In locating the CG and SG transition temperatures TCG{T}_{\mathrm{CG}}TCG​ and TSG{T}_{\mathrm{SG}}TSG​ with the $L\ensuremath{\rightarrow}\ensuremath{\infty}$ extrapolation, a variety of independent physical quantities under both BCs are computed and utilized to get larger number of degrees of freedom (NDF). Because of the large NDF up to NDF=43\text{NDF}=43NDF=43, we succeed in obtaining stable and accurate estimates of the CG and SG transition temperatures, ${T}_{\mathrm{CG}}=0.142\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}0.001$ and ${T}_{\mathrm{SG}}=0.{131}_{\ensuremath{-}0.006}^{+0.001}$. No sign of the size crossover is observed. For larger LLL, the CG correlation length progressively outgrows the SG correlation length at low temperatures. These results provide strong numerical support for the spin-chirality decoupling. The critical exponents associated with the CG and SG transitions are evaluated using the finite-size scaling with the scaling correction. For the CG transition, we get the CG exponents, ${\ensuremath{\nu}}_{\mathrm{CG}}=1.36\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}0.10$ and ${\ensuremath{\eta}}_{\mathrm{CG}}=0.49\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}0.10$, consistent with the corresponding experimental exponents of canonical SG. Implications for the chirality scenario of experimental SG ordering are discussed.
We present some numerical results for the Heisenberg spin-glass model with Gaussian interactions, in a three-dimensional cubic lattice. We measure the ac susceptibility as a function of temperature and determine an apparent finite temperature transition which is compatible with the chiral-glass temperature transition for this model. The relaxation time diverges like a power law $\ensuremath{\tau}\ensuremath{\sim}{(T\ensuremath{-}{T}_{c})}^{\ensuremath{-}z\ensuremath{\nu}}$ with Tc=0.19(4){T}_{c}=0.19(4)Tc​=0.19(4) and $z\ensuremath{\nu}=5.0(5)$. Although our data indicate that the spin-glass transition occurs at the same temperature as the chiral glass transition, we cannot exclude the possibility of a chiral-spin coupling scenario for the lowest frequencies investigated.
We study the phase transition of the ±J\pm J±J Heisenberg model in three dimensions. Using a dynamical simulation method that removes a drift of the system, the existence of the spin-glass (SG) phase at low temperatures is suggested. The transition temperature is estimated to be TSG∼0.18JT_{\rm SG} \sim 0.18JTSG​∼0.18J from both equilibrium and off-equilibrium Monte-Carlo simulations. Our result contradicts the chirality mechanism of the phase transition reported recently by Kawamura which claims that it is not the spins but the chiralities of the spins that are ordered in Heisenberg SG systems.
It is shown, by means of Monte Carlo simulation and finite size scaling analysis, that the Heisenberg spin glass undergoes a finite-temperature phase transition in three dimensions. There is a single critical temperature, at which both a spin glass and a chiral glass ordering develop. The Monte Carlo algorithm, adapted from lattice gauge theory simulations, makes it possible to thermalize lattices of size L = 32, larger than in any previous spin-glass simulation in three dimensions. High accuracy is reached thanks to the use of the Marenostrum supercomputer. The large range of system sizes studied allows us to consider scaling corrections.
We re-examine the spin-glass (SG) phase transition of the ± J Heisenberg models with and without random anisotropy D in three dimensions ( d = 3) using two complementary methods, i.e., (i) the defect energy method and (ii) the Monte Carlo method. We reveal that the conventional defect energy method is not convincing and propose a new method which considers the stiffness of the lattice itself. Using the method, we show that the stiffness exponent θ has a positive value (θ > 0) even when D = 0. Considering the stiffness at finite temperatures, we obtain the SG phase transition temperature of T SG ∼ 0.19 J for D = 0. On the other hand, a large scale MC simulation shows that, in contrast to the previous results, a scaling plot of the SG susceptibility χ SG for D = 0 is obtained using almost the same transition temperature of T SG ∼ 0.18 J . Hence we believe that the SG phase transition occurs in the Heisenberg SG model in d = 3.