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Ising magnets with mobile defects

Condensed Matter 2009-11-07 v2

Abstract

Motivated by recent experiments on cuprates with low-dimensional magnetic interactions, a new class of two-dimensional Ising models with short-range interactions and mobile defects is introduced and studied. The non-magnetic defects form lines, which, as temperature increases, first meander and then become unstable. Using Monte Carlo simulations and analytical low- and high-temperature considerations, the instability of the defect stripes is monitored for various microscopic and thermodynamic quantities in detail for a minimal model, assuming some of the couplings to be indefinitely strong. The robustness of the findings against weakening the interactions is discussed as well.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0208562,
  title  = {Ising magnets with mobile defects},
  author = {W. Selke and V. L. Pokrovsky and B. Buechner and T. Kroll},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0208562},
  year   = {2009}
}