| Issue |
Europhys. Lett.
Volume 70, Number 6, June 2005
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|---|---|---|
| Page(s) | 733 - 739 | |
| Section | General | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/epl/i2005-10042-2 | |
| Published online | 18 May 2005 | |
Disorder-driven phase transitions of the large q-state Potts model in three dimensions
1
Dipartimento di Fisica “E. R. Caianiello”, Università degli Studi di Salerno and Laboratorio Regionale SuperMat INFM - I-84081 Baronissi (Salerno), Italy
2
Centre de Recherches sur les Trés Basses Températures B.P. 166, F-38042 Grenoble, France
3
Research Institute for Solid State Physics and Optics P.O. Box 49, H-1525 Budapest, Hungary
4
Institute of Theoretical Physics, Szeged University - H-6720 Szeged, Hungary
Received:
17
March
2005
Accepted:
19
April
2005
Phase transitions induced by varying the strength of disorder in
the large-q state Potts model in 3d are studied by analytical
and numerical methods. By switching on the disorder, the
transition stays of first order, but different thermodynamical
quantities display essential singularities. Only for strong
enough disorder will the transition be soften into a second-order
one, in which case the ordered phase becomes non-homogeneous at
large scales, while the non-correlated sites percolate the
sample. In the critical regime the critical exponents are found
universal: 
and 
.
PACS: 05.50.+q – Lattice theory and statistics (Ising, Potts, etc.) / 64.60.Fr – Equilibrium properties near critical points, critical exponents / 75.10.Nr – Spin-glass and other random models
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