Published January 1988 | Version v1
Journal article

Random Fields Generated by Dilution in Zero External Field

  • 1. Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas. Dept. de Fisica
  • 2. Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Cientificas, Caracas. Dept. de Fisica Atomica y Molecular

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It is shown that arbitrarily small amounts of bond or site dilution generate (in zero magnetic field) effects in some Ising antiferromagnets much like random fields and are, therefore, not covered by the criterion of Harris. All antiferromagnets on f.c.c. lattices as well as antiferromagnets of type-II in b.c.c. lattice suffer this effect. We argue that the cross-over exponent into the impurity-dominated regime fulfills in any dimensionality, and that an Ising model is unstable against any small site or bond dilution. Numerical results for strips, obtained by the transfer matrix method confirm this picture

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Journal Title
Europhysics Letters
Journal Volume
5
Journal Issue
2
Series
Europhys. Lett.
Journal Page Range
129-133
CODEN
EULEE