SPIN-GLASS AND ANTIFERROMAGNET CRITICAL-BEHAVIOR IN A DILUTED FEE ANTIFERROMAGNET

Citation
C. Wengel et al., SPIN-GLASS AND ANTIFERROMAGNET CRITICAL-BEHAVIOR IN A DILUTED FEE ANTIFERROMAGNET, Physical review. B, Condensed matter, 53(10), 1996, pp. 6543-6553
Citations number
52
Categorie Soggetti
Physics, Condensed Matter
ISSN journal
01631829
Volume
53
Issue
10
Year of publication
1996
Pages
6543 - 6553
Database
ISI
SICI code
0163-1829(1996)53:10<6543:SAACIA>2.0.ZU;2-E
Abstract
We report on a Monte Carlo study of a diluted Ising antiferromagnet on a fee lattice. This is a typical model example of a highly frustrated antiferromagnet, and we ask whether sufficient random dilution of spi ns does produce a spin-glass phase. Our data strongly indicate the exi stence of a spin-glass transition for spin concentration p < 0.75: We find a divergent spin-glass susceptibility and a divergent spin-glass correlation length, whereas the antiferromagnetic correlation length s aturates in this regime. Furthermore, we find a first-order phase tran sition to an antiferromagnet for 1 greater than or equal to p > 0.85, which becomes continuous in the range 0.85 > p > 0.75. Finite-size sca ling is employed to obtain critical exponents. We compare our results with experimental systems as diluted frustrated antiferromagnets as Zn 1-pMnpTe.