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Three Dimensional Heisenberg Spin Glass Models with and without Random Anisotropy

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks 2009-11-10 v1

Abstract

We reexamine the spin glass (SG) phase transition of the ±J\pm J Heisenberg models with and without the random anisotropy DD in three dimensions (d=3d = 3) using complementary two methods, i.e., (i) the defect energy method and (ii) the Monte Carlo method. We reveal that the conventional defect energy method is not convincing and propose a new method which considers the stiffness of the lattice itself. Using the method, we show that the stiffness exponent θ\theta has a positive value (θ>0\theta > 0) even when D=0D = 0. Considering the stiffness at finite temperatures, we obtain the SG phase transition temperature of TSG0.19JT_{\rm SG} \sim 0.19J for D=0D = 0. On the other hand, a large scale MC simulation shows that, in contrary to the previous results, a scaling plot of the SG susceptibility χSG\chi_{\rm SG} for D=0D = 0 is obtained using almost the same transiton temperature of TSG0.18JT_{\rm SG} \sim 0.18J. Hence we believe that the SG phase transition occurs in the Heisenberg SG model in d=3d = 3.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0309573,
  title  = {Three Dimensional Heisenberg Spin Glass Models with and without Random Anisotropy},
  author = {F Matsubara and T Shirakura and S Endoh and S Takahashi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0309573},
  year   = {2009}
}

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15 pages, 9 figures, to be published in J. Phys. A