Smearing of the phase transition in Ising systems with planar defects

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/36/43/017zbMATH Open1075.82520arXivcond-mat/0303598OpenAlexW3102918964MaRDI QIDQ5696385FDOQ5696385

Authors: Thomas Vojta 

Publication date: 18 October 2005

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

Abstract: We show that phase transitions in Ising systems with planar defects, i.e., disorder perfectly correlated in two dimensions are destroyed by smearing. This is caused by effects similar to but stronger than the Griffiths phenomena: Exponentially rare spatial regions can develop true static long-range order even when the bulk system is still in its disordered phase. Close to the smeared transition, the order parameter is very inhomogeneous in space, with the thermodynamic (average) order parameter depending exponentially on temperature. We determine the behavior using extremal statistics, and we illustrate the results by computer simulations.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0303598

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Software, source code, etc. for problems pertaining to statistical mechanics (82-04) Lattice systems (Ising, dimer, Potts, etc.) and systems on graphs arising in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B20) Disordered systems (random Ising models, random Schrödinger operators, etc.) in equilibrium statistical mechanics (82B44)

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