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A random antiferromagnetic spin-1 chain with both Heisenberg and biquadrati
c nearest neighbor couplings is found to exhibit a novel ferromagnetic-like
instability at low energies, if there is competition between the Heisenber
g and biquadratic couplings, even though each individual nearest neighbor c
oupling is such as to produce a singlet ground state for the isolated pair.
This instability leads to the generation of ferromagnetic couplings, and t
hus to the formation of weakly coupled large moments at low temperatures. A
perturbative calculation (up to 4th order) is performed to investigate whe
ther such a situation is physically realizable in spin-1 systems. (C) 1998
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