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Generalized Spin Glass Relaxation

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks 2009-02-25 v1 Other Condensed Matter

Abstract

Spin relaxation close to the glass temperature of CuMn and AuFe spin glasses is shown, by neutron spin echo, to follow a generalised exponential function which explicitly introduces hierarchically constrained dynamics and macroscopic interactions. The interaction parameter is directly related to the normalised Tsallis non-extensive entropy parameter, q, and exhibits universal scaling with reduced temperature. At the glass temperature q=5/3 corresponding, within Tsallis' q-statistics, to a mathematically defined critical value for the onset of strong disorder and non-linear dynamics.

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@article{arxiv.0902.4183,
  title  = {Generalized Spin Glass Relaxation},
  author = {R M Pickup and R Cywinski and C Pappas and B Farago and P Fouquet},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0902.4183},
  year   = {2009}
}

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4 pages: accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters (Feb 2009)

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