Site-disordered spin systems in the Gaussian variational approximation

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/30/1/005MaRDI QIDQ4235273zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors David S. Dean, D. J. Lancaster

Publication date 23 August 1999

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/9606033

zbMATH Keywords

ferromagnetic orderinggrand canonical disordersite-disordered spin systemsspin-glass transition

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Other physical applications of random processes (60K40) 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)

Abstract: We define a replica field theory describing finite dimensional site disordered spin systems by introducing the notion of grand canonical disorder, where the number of spins in the system is random but quenched. A general analysis of this field theory is made using the Gaussian variational or Hartree Fock method, and illustrated with several specific examples. Irrespective of the form of interaction between the spins this approximation predicts a spin glass phase. We discuss the replica symmetric phase at length, explicitly identifying the correlator that diverges at the spin glass transition. We also discuss the form of continuous replica symmetry breaking found just below the transition. Finally we show how an analysis of ferromagnetic ordering indicates a breakdown of the approximation.

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