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A Numerical Study of the Random Transverse-Field Ising Spin Chain

Condensed Matter 2009-10-28 v1

Abstract

We study numerically the critical region and the disordered phase of the random transverse-field Ising chain. By using a mapping of Lieb, Schultz and Mattis to non-interacting fermions, we can obtain a numerically exact solution for rather large system sizes, L128L \le 128. Our results confirm the striking predictions of earlier analytical work and, in addition, give new results for some probability distributions and scaling functions.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9510027,
  title  = {A Numerical Study of the Random Transverse-Field Ising Spin Chain},
  author = {A. P. Young and H. Rieger},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9510027},
  year   = {2009}
}

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16 pages with 23 embedded postscript figures. A uuencoded, compressed tar file. The postscript file is available by anonymous ftp from ftp://chopin.ucsc.edu/pub/one-d.ps