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Tricriticality and Reentrance in a Naive Spin-Glass Model

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks 2015-05-19 v1

Abstract

In this paper a spin-1 spin-glass model under the presence of a uniform crystal field is investigated. It is shown that the model presents both continuous and first-order phase transition separated by a tricritical point. The phase diagram is obtained within the replica-symmetric solution and exhibits reentrance phenomena at low temperatures. Possibly it is the simplest model which can describe inverse freezing phenomena.

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@article{arxiv.1005.3334,
  title  = {Tricriticality and Reentrance in a Naive Spin-Glass Model},
  author = {F. A. da Costa},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1005.3334},
  year   = {2015}
}

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12 pages, 1 figure