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Spin Glass and Antiferromagnetic Behaviour in a Diluted fcc Antiferromagnet

Condensed Matter 2009-10-28 v2

Abstract

We report on a Monte Carlo study of a diluted Ising antiferromagnet on a fcc lattice. This is a typical model example of a highly frustrated antiferromagnet, and we ask, whether sufficient random dilution of spins does produce a spin glass phase. Our data strongly indicate the existence of a spin glass transition for spin--concentration p<0.75p<0.75: We find a divergent spin glass susceptibility and a divergent spin glass correlation length, whereas the antiferromagnetic correlation length saturates in this regime. Furthermore, we find a first order phase transition to an antiferromagnet for 1p>0.851\ge p>0.85, which becomes continuous in the range 0.85>p>0.750.85>p>0.75. Finite size scaling is employed to obtain critical exponents. We compare our results with experimental systems as diluted frustrated antiferromagnets as Zn1pMnpTe{\rm Zn_{1-p}Mn_{p}Te}.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9509056,
  title  = {Spin Glass and Antiferromagnetic Behaviour in a Diluted fcc Antiferromagnet},
  author = {C. Wengel and C. L. Henley and A. Zippelius},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9509056},
  year   = {2009}
}

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29 pages (revtex) and 10 figures uuencoded and Z-compressed