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Effects of Random Biquadratic Couplings in a Spin-1 Spin-Glass Model

Statistical Mechanics 2009-10-31 v1 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks

Abstract

A spin-1 model, appropriated to study the competition between bilinear (J_{ij}S_{i}S_{j}) and biquadratic (K_{ij}S_{i}^{2}S_{j}^{2}) random interactions, both of them with zero mean, is investigated. The interactions are infinite-ranged and the replica method is employed. Within the replica-symmetric assumption, the system presents two phases, namely, paramagnetic and spin-glass, separated by a continuous transition line. The stability analysis of the replica-symmetric solution yields, besides the usual instability associated with the spin-glass ordering, a new phase due to the random biquadratic couplings between the spins.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0005020,
  title  = {Effects of Random Biquadratic Couplings in a Spin-1 Spin-Glass Model},
  author = {J. M. de Araujo and F. A. da Costa and F. D. Nobre},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0005020},
  year   = {2009}
}

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16 pages plus 2 ps figures