Quenched disorder and spin-glass correlations inXYnematics

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/39/31/003MaRDI QIDQ5484471zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Loukas Petridis, Eugene Terentjev

Publication date 17 August 2006

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0607279

zbMATH Keywords

quenched disorderspin-glass\(XY\) nematic system

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Disordered systems (random Ising models, random Schrödinger operators, etc.) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B44)

Abstract: We present a theoretical study of the equilibrium ordering in a 3D XY nematic system with quenched random disorder. Within this model, treated with the replica trick and Gaussian variational method, the correlation length is obtained as a function of the local nematic order parameter and the effective disorder strength. These results clarify what happens in the limiting cases of diminishing order parameter and disorder strength, that is near a phase transition of a pure system. In particular, it is found that quenched disorder is irrelevant as the order parameter tends to zero and hence does not change the character of the continuous XY nematic to isotropic phase transition. We discuss how these results compare with experiments and simulations

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