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Decorated Clusters and Geometrical Frustration in Cluster Spin Glass: A Random Graph Approach

Statistical Mechanics 2025-07-31 v1 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks

Abstract

We develop a theory to investigate how geometrically frustrated clusters that become decorated affect the Cluster Spin Glass phase. The cluster structure is assumed to be a tetrahedron composed of Ising spins with z-anisotropy placed at its vertices that interact antiferromagnetically. We consider the probability 1pJ1-p_J of finding an impurity at a vertex of the tetrahedron that interacts ferromagnetically with the remaining elements inside the tetrahedron. An intercluster disorder is added as a random Gaussian interaction. The order parameters are obtained using the sparse random graph technique, which introduces the connectivity of the network of clusters as a controllable parameter in the theory. We examine changes that occur in the Cluster Spin Glass phase as a function of pJp_J and cc, in addition to the antiferromagnetic intracluster couplings J1J_1. For intermediate values of pJp_J, unexpected results appear. Even when some clusters contain a ferromagnetic impurity, there will still be robust geometric frustration effects in the cluster network. However, the pJp_J threshold for this to occur depends on connectivity. Conversely, below this threshold, reduced GF effects favor the reappearance of the CSG phase. Furthermore, the Curie-Weiss temperature ΘW\Theta_W has a gradual change of signal, indicating that the effects of the impurities extend to the paramagnetic phase.

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@article{arxiv.2507.22690,
  title  = {Decorated Clusters and Geometrical Frustration in Cluster Spin Glass: A Random Graph Approach},
  author = {S. G. Magalhaes and F. M. Zimmer and R. Erichsen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.22690},
  year   = {2025}
}

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26 pages, 10 figures