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Thermodynamics of localized magnetic moments in a Dirac conductor

Statistical Mechanics 2015-06-03 v1 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks

Abstract

We show that the magnetic susceptibility of a dilute ensemble of magnetic impurities in a conductor with a relativistic electronic spectrum is non-analytic in the inverse tempertature at 1/T01/T\to 0. We derive a general theory of this effect and construct the high-temperature expansion for the disorder averaged susceptibility to any order, convergent at all tempertaures down to a possible ordering transition. When applied to Ising impurities on a surface of a topological insulator, the proposed general theory agrees with Monte Carlo simulations, and it allows us to find the critical temperature of the ferromagnetic phase transition.

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@article{arxiv.1112.4096,
  title  = {Thermodynamics of localized magnetic moments in a Dirac conductor},
  author = {V. Cheianov and M. Szyniszewski and E. Burovski and Yu. Sherkunov and V. Fal'ko},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1112.4096},
  year   = {2015}
}

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5 pages, 1 figure, 2 tables, RevTeX