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Volume 107, Number 1, July 2014
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Article Number | 17005 | |
Number of page(s) | 5 | |
Section | Condensed Matter: Electronic Structure, Electrical, Magnetic and Optical Properties | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/107/17005 | |
Published online | 09 July 2014 |
Ordered amorphous spin system
Department of Physics, Technion - Haifa 32000, Israel
Received: 8 April 2014
Accepted: 18 June 2014
A solid is typically deemed amorphous when there are no Bragg peaks in its diffraction pattern. We discuss a two-dimensional configuration of Ising spins with an autocorrelation function which vanishes at all nonzero distances, so that its scattering pattern is flat. This configuration is a ground state of a Hamiltonian with deterministic, translationally invariant and finite-range interactions. Despite ostensibly being amorphous, this configuration has perfect underlying order. The finite-temperature behavior of this model exhibits ordering transitions at successively larger length scales.
PACS: 75.10.Nr – Spin-glass and other random models / 61.43.Fs – Glasses / 75.50.Lk – Spin glasses and other random magnets
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