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Topological order generated by random field in a 2D exchange model

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks 2018-07-11 v1 Statistical Mechanics

Abstract

We study a 2D exchange model with a weak static random field on lattices containing over one hundred million spins. Ferromagnetic correlations persist on the Imry-Ma scale inversely proportional to the random-field strength and decay exponentially at greater distances. We find that the average energy of the correlated area is close to the ground-state energy of a skyrmion, while the topological charge of the area is close to ±1\pm 1. Correlation function of the topological charge density exhibits oscillations with a period determined by the ferromagnetic correlation length, while its Fourier transform exhibits a maximum. These findings suggest that static randomness transforms a 2D ferromagnetic state into a skyrmion-antiskyrmion glass.

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@article{arxiv.1803.09117,
  title  = {Topological order generated by random field in a 2D exchange model},
  author = {E. M. Chudnovsky and D. A. Garanin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1803.09117},
  year   = {2018}
}

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5 pages, 3 figures

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