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Quantum critical point in the spin glass-antiferromagnetism competition for fermionic Ising Models

Strongly Correlated Electrons 2015-06-25 v1 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks

Abstract

The competition between spin glass (SGSG) and antiferromagnetic order (AFAF) is analyzed in two sublattice fermionic Ising models in the presence of a transverse Γ\Gamma and a parallel HH magnetic fields. The exchange interaction follows a Gaussian probability distribution with mean 4J0/N-4J_0/N and standard deviation J32/NJ\sqrt{32/N}, but only spins in different sublattices can interact. The problem is formulated in a path integral formalism, where the spin operators have been expressed as bilinear combinations of Grassmann fields. The results of two fermionic models are compared. In the first one, the diagonal SzS^z operator has four states, where two eigenvalues vanish (4S model), which are suppressed by a restriction in the two states 2S model. The replica symmetry ansatz and the static approximation have been used to obtain the free energy. The results are showing in phase diagrams T/JT/J (TT is the temperature) {\it versus} J0/JJ_{0}/J, Γ/J\Gamma/J, and H/JH/J. When Γ\Gamma is increased, TfT_{f} (transition temperature to a nonergodic phase) reduces and the Neel temperature decreases towards a quantum critical point. The field HH always destroys AFAF; however, within a certain range, it favors the frustration. Therefore, the presence of both fields, Γ\Gamma and HH, produces effects that are in competition. The critical temperatures are lower for the 4S model and it is less sensitive to the magnetic couplings than the 2S model.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0505072,
  title  = {Quantum critical point in the spin glass-antiferromagnetism competition for fermionic Ising Models},
  author = {F. M. Zimmer and S. G. Magalhaes},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0505072},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

15 pages, 6 figures, accepted in Physica A