A ferromagnet with a glass transition

Citation
S. Franz et al., A ferromagnet with a glass transition, EUROPH LETT, 55(4), 2001, pp. 465-471
Citations number
28
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
EUROPHYSICS LETTERS
ISSN journal
02955075 → ACNP
Volume
55
Issue
4
Year of publication
2001
Pages
465 - 471
Database
ISI
SICI code
0295-5075(200108)55:4<465:AFWAGT>2.0.ZU;2-R
Abstract
We introduce a finite-connectivity ferromagnetic model with a three-spin in teraction which has a crystalline ( ferromagnetic) phase as well as a glass phase. The model is not frustrated, it has a ferromagnetic equilibrium pha se at low temperature which is not reached dynamically in a quench from the high-temperature phase. Instead it shows a glass transition which can be s tudied in detail by a one-step replica-symmetry broken calculation. This sp in model exhibits the main properties of the structural glass transition at a solvable mean-field level.