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Equilibrium spin-glass transition of magnetic dipoles with random anisotropy axes

Materials Science 2009-03-05 v1 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks

Abstract

We study fully occupied lattice systems of classical magnetic dipoles which point along random axes. Only dipolar interactions are considered. From tempered Monte Carlo simulations, we obtain numerical evidence that supports the following conclusions: in three dimensions, (a) there is an equilibrium spin glass phase at temperatures below TcT_c, where kBTc=(0.86±0.07)εdk_BT_c= (0.86\pm 0.07)\varepsilon_d and εd\varepsilon_d is a nearest neighbor dipole-dipole interaction energy, (b) in the spin glass phase the overlap parameter is approximately given by 1T/Tc\sqrt{1-T/T_c}, and (c) the correlation length ξ\xi diverges at TcT_c with a critical exponent ν=1.5±0.5\nu =1.5\pm0.5; in two dimensions ξ\xi diverges at or near T=0 and ν=3±1\nu=3\pm1.

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@article{arxiv.0903.0709,
  title  = {Equilibrium spin-glass transition of magnetic dipoles with random anisotropy axes},
  author = {J. F. Fernández},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0903.0709},
  year   = {2009}
}

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6 pages, 8 figures