Issue |
Europhys. Lett.
Volume 44, Number 1, October I 1998
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Page(s) | 13 - 19 | |
Section | General | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/epl/i1998-00428-0 | |
Published online | 01 September 2002 |
New phenomena in the random field Ising model
1
Laboratoire de Physique Théorique, Ecole Normale Supérieure, 24 rue Lhomond 75231, Paris Cedex 05, France ( Unité propre 701 du Centre national de la recherche scientifique, associée à l'Ecole Normale Supérieure et à l'Université de Paris-Sud.)
2
Service de physique théorique - Saclay, 91190 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Received:
27
April
1998
Accepted:
12
August
1998
We reconsider Ising spins in a Gaussian random field within the replica
formalism. The corresponding continuum model
involves several coupling constants beyond the single one which was
considered in the standard theory approach.
These terms involve more than one replica, and therefore in a mean-field
theory they do not contribute to the zero-replica
limit. However, the fluctuations involving those extra terms are singular on
the Curie line below eight dimensions, and by the time
one reaches the dimension six, it is necessary to keep them in the
renormalization group analysis. As a result it is found
that there is no stable fixed point of order
. Whether this means
that there is no expansion in powers of
,
or that the transition is driven to first order by these fluctuations, is
difficult to decide at this level, but it explains
the failure of the
correspondence.
PACS: 05.50.+q – Lattice theory and statistics; Ising problems / 64.60.Fr – Equilibrium properties near critical points, critical exponents
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