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Critical behaviour in two-dimensional Coulomb Glass at zero temperature

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks 2017-05-29 v2

Abstract

The lattice model of Coulomb Glass in two dimensions with box-type random field distribution is studied at zero temperature for system size upto 96296^{2}. To obtain the minimum energy state we annealed the system using Monte Carlo simulation followed by further minimization using cluster-flipping. The values of the critical exponents are determined using the standard finite size scaling. We found that the correlation length ξ\xi diverges with an exponent ν=1.0\nu=1.0 at the critical disorder Wc=0.2253W_{c} = 0.2253 and that χdisξ4ηˉ\chi_{dis} \approx \xi^{4-\bar{\eta}} with ηˉ=2\bar{\eta}=2 for the disconnected susceptibility. The staggered magnetization behaves discontinuously around the transition and the critical exponent of magnetization β=0\beta=0. The probability distribution of the staggered magnetization shows a three peak structure which is a characteristic feature for the phase coexistence at first-order phase transition. In addition to this, at the critical disorder we have also studied the properties of the domain for different system sizes. In contradiction with the Imry-Ma arguments, we found pinned and non-compact domains where most of the random field energy was contained in the domain wall. Our results are also inconsistent with Binder's roughening picture.

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@article{arxiv.1702.08632,
  title  = {Critical behaviour in two-dimensional Coulomb Glass at zero temperature},
  author = {Preeti Bhandari and Vikas Malik and Syed Rashid Ahmad},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1702.08632},
  year   = {2017}
}

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9 pages, 13 figures

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