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Monte Carlo Simulation of a Random-Field Ising Antiferromagnet

Other Condensed Matter 2009-11-11 v1 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks

Abstract

Phase transitions in the three-dimensional diluted Ising antiferromagnet in an applied magnetic field are analyzed numerically. It is found that random magnetic field in a system with spin concentration below a certain threshold induces a crossover from second-order phase transition to first-order transition to a new phase characterized by a spin-glass ground state and metastable energy states at finite temperatures.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0510052,
  title  = {Monte Carlo Simulation of a Random-Field Ising Antiferromagnet},
  author = {V. V. Prudnikov and V. N. Borodikhin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0510052},
  year   = {2009}
}

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10 pages, 11 figures