Devil's Staircase Continuum in the Chiral Clock Spin Glass with Competing Ferromagnetic-Antiferromagnetic and Left-Right Chiral Interactions
Abstract
The chiral clock spin-glass model with q=5 states, with both competing ferromagnetic-antiferromagnetic and left-right chiral frustrations, is studied in d=3 spatial dimensions by renormalization-group theory. The global phase diagram is calculated in temperature, antiferromagnetic bond concentration p, random chirality strength, and right-chirality concentration c. The system has a ferromagnetic phase, a multitude of different chiral phases, a chiral spin-glass phase, and a critical (algebraically) ordered phase. The ferromagnetic and chiral phases accumulate at the disordered phase boundary and form a spectrum of devil's staircases, where different ordered phases characteristically intercede at all scales of phase-diagram space. Shallow and deep reentrances of the disordered phase, bordered by fragments of regular and temperature-inverted devil's staircases, are seen. The extremely rich phase diagrams are presented as continuously and qualitatively changing videos.
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@article{arxiv.1612.03330,
title = {Devil's Staircase Continuum in the Chiral Clock Spin Glass with Competing Ferromagnetic-Antiferromagnetic and Left-Right Chiral Interactions},
author = {Tolga Caglar and A. Nihat Berker},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1612.03330},
year = {2017}
}
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Published version. 10 pages, 7 figures, 26 phase diagrams, 4 devil's staircase videos