arXiv:cond-mat/0305434 · Physical review. B, Condensed matter
Critical equation of state of randomly dilute Ising systems
Pasquale Calabrese, Martino De Prato, Andrea Pelissetto C, Ettore Vicari
Abstract
We determine the critical equation of state of three-dimensional randomly dilute Ising systems--- i.e., of the random-exchange Ising universality class. We first consider the small-magnetization expansion of the Helmholtz free energy in the high-temperature phase. Then, we apply a systematic approximation scheme of the equation of state in the whole critical regime, which is based on polynomial parametric representations matching the small-magnetization expansion of the Helmholtz free energy and satisfying a global stationarity condition. These results allow us to estimate several universal amplitude ratios, such as the ratio ${A}^{+}{/A}^{\ensuremath{-}}$ of the specific-heat amplitudes. Our best estimate ${A}^{+}{/A}^{\ensuremath{-}}=1.6(3)$ is in good agreement with experimental results on dilute uniaxial antiferromagnets.