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The 3-d Random Field Ising Model at zero temperature

Condensed Matter 2009-10-30 v1

Abstract

We study numerically the zero temperature Random Field Ising Model on cubic lattices of various linear sizes LL in three dimensions. For each random field configuration we vary the ferromagnetic coupling strength JJ. We find that in the infinite volume limit the magnetization is discontinuous in JJ. The energy and its first JJ derivative are continuous. The approch to the thermodynamic limit is slow, behaving like LpL^{-p} with p.8p \sim .8 for the gaussian distribution of the random field. We also study the bimodal distribution hi=±hh_{i} = \pm h, and we find similar results for the magnetization but with a different value of the exponent p.6p \sim .6 . This raises the question of the validity of universality for the random field problem.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9704088,
  title  = {The 3-d Random Field Ising Model at zero temperature},
  author = {J. -C. Anglès d'Auriac and N. Sourlas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9704088},
  year   = {2009}
}

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8 pages, 3 PostScript Figures