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Inverse freezing in the Ghatak-Sherrington model with a random field

Statistical Mechanics 2015-06-04 v1 Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

The present work studies the Ghatak-Sherrington (GS) model in the presence of a magnetic random field (RF). Previous results obtained from GS model without RF suggest that disorder and frustration are the key ingredients to produce spontaneous inverse freezing (IF). However, in this model, the effects of disorder and frustration always appear combined. In that sense, the introduction of RF allows us to study the IF under the effects of a disorder which is not a source of frustration. The problem is solved within the one step replica symmetry approximation. The results show that the first order transition between the spin glass and the paramagnetic phases, which is related to the IF for a certain range of crystal field DD, is gradually suppressed when the RF is increased.

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@article{arxiv.1203.3828,
  title  = {Inverse freezing in the Ghatak-Sherrington model with a random field},
  author = {C. V. Morais and M. J. Lazo and F. M. Zimmer and S. G. Magalhaes},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1203.3828},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

accepted in the PRE, 6 pages, 8 figures