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Absence of Dipole Glass Transition for Randomly Dilute Classical Ising Dipoles

Soft Condensed Matter 2009-11-11 v1 Statistical Mechanics

Abstract

Dilute dipolar systems in three dimensions are expected to undergo a spin glass transition as the temperature decreases. Contrary to this, we find from Wang-Landau Monte Carlo simulations that at low concentrations xx, dipoles randomly placed on a cubic lattice with dipolar interactions do not undergo a phase transition. We find that in the thermodynamic limit the ``glass'' transition temperature TgT_g goes to zero as 1/N1/\sqrt{N} where NN is the number of dipoles. The entropy per particle at low temperatures is larger for lower concentrations (x=4.5x=4.5%) than for higher concentrations (x=20x=20%).

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0508560,
  title  = {Absence of Dipole Glass Transition for Randomly Dilute Classical Ising Dipoles},
  author = {Joseph Snider and Clare C. Yu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0508560},
  year   = {2009}
}