Antiferromagnetic Ising spin glass competing with BCS pairing interaction in a transverse field

The competition among spin glass (SG), antiferromagnetism (AF) and local pairing superconductivity (PAIR) is studied in a two-sublattice fermionic Ising spin glass model with a local BCS pairing interaction in the presence of an applied magnetic transverse field Γ. In the present approach, spins in different sublattices interact with a Gaussian random coupling with an antiferromagnetic mean J₀ and standard deviation J. The problem is formulated in the path integral formalism in which spin operators are represented by bilinear combinations of Grassmann variables. The saddle-point Grand Canonical potential is obtained within the static approximation and the replica symmetric ansatz. The results are analysed in phase diagrams in which the AF and the SG phases can occur for small g (g is the strength of the local superconductor coupling written in units of J), while the PAIR phase appears as unique solution for large g. However, there is a complex line transition separating the PAIR phase from the others. It is second order at high temperature that ends in a tricritical point. The quantum fluctuations affect deeply the transition lines and the tricritical point due to the presence of Γ.     

Mixed spin transverse Ising model with longitudinal random crystal field interactions

The effect of a longitudinal random crystal field interaction on the phase diagrams of the mixed spin transverse Ising model consisting of spin-1/2 and spin-1 is investigated within the finite cluster approximation based on a single-site cluster theory. In order to expand a cluster identity of spin-1, we transform the spin-1 to spin-1/2 representation containing Pauli operators. We derive the state equations applicable to structures with arbitrary coordination number N. The phase diagrams obtained in the case of a honeycomb lattice (N=3) and a simple-cubic lattice (N=6), are qualitatively different and examined in detail. We find that both systems exhibit a variety of interesting features resulting from the fluctuation of the crystal field interactions. Received: 13 February 1998 / Accepted: 17 March 1998     

Fermionic Ising glasses with BCS pairing interaction. Tricritical behaviour

We have examined the role of the BCS pairing mechanism in the formation of the magnetic moment and henceforth a spin glass (SG) phase by studying a fermionic Sherrington-Kirkpatrick model with a local BCS coupling between the fermions. This model is obtained by using perturbation theory to trace out the conduction electrons degrees of freedom in conventional superconducting alloys. The model is formulated in the path integral formalism where the spin operators are represented by bilinear combinations of Grassmann fields and it reduces to a single site problem that can be solved within the static approximation with a replica symmetric ansatz. We argue that this is a valid procedure for values of temperature above the de Almeida-Thouless instability line. The phase diagram in the T-g plane, where g is the strength of the pairing interaction, for fixed variance J ² /N of the random couplings J_ij, exhibits three regions: a normal paramagnetic (NP) phase, a spin glass (SG) phase and a pairing (PAIR) phase where there is formation of local pairs.The NP and PAIR phases are separated by a second order transition line g=g _c (T) that ends at a tricritical point T ₃ =0.9807J, g ₃ =5,8843J, from where it becomes a first order transition line that meets the line of second order transitions at T _c =0.9570J that separates the NP and the SG phases. For T<T _c the SG phase is separated from the PAIR phase by a line of first order transitions. These results agree qualitatively with experimental data in . Received 14 May 1998     

The new identity for the scattering matrix of exactly solvable models

We discovered a simple quadratic equation, which relates scattering phases of particles on Fermi surface. We consider one-dimensional Bose gas and XXZ Heisenberg quantum spin chain. Received: 4 December 1997 / Accepted: 17 March 1998     

Change of the scaling behavior of the end-to-end square distance in a two-dimensional polydisperse system

The simulation of a two-dimensional, broadly polydisperse, living polymers system at high concentration reveals an unusual conformational behaviour for the longer chains. Unlike in three dimensions, the longer chains are not swollen but are squeezed by the smaller chains. This observation is discussed in terms of a two dimensional solvent- polymer mixture whose solvent particules are larger than the polymer monomers. Received: 13 December 1996 / Revised: 16 March 1998 / Accepted: 27 March 1998     

The effect of stiffness in wormlike micelles

The effect of stiffness in a 2D living polymer system is investigated by Monte-Carlo simulation in a canonical ensemble. As the flexibility decreases, the mean chain contour length decreases and goes through a local maximum. The mean end to end square distance shows a non-monotonic behaviour due to the coil-to-rod transition and the decrease in chain contour length. Near the maximum of chain ordering in the bulk, the chain length distribution adapts itself to increase the configurational entropy. With the parameters used in this simulation, it seems that the effect of the stiffness for high stiffness is to decrease as in the isotropic case, since the ordering decreases again. Received: 16 September 1997 / Revised: 27 June 1998 / Accepted: 29 June 1998     

On the properties of small-world network models

We study the small-world networks recently introduced by Watts and Strogatz [Nature 393, 440 (1998)], using analytical as well as numerical tools. We characterize the geometrical properties resulting from the coexistence of a local structure and random long-range connections, and we examine their evolution with size and disorder strength. We show that any finite value of the disorder is able to trigger a “small-world” behaviour as soon as the initial lattice is big enough, and study the crossover between a regular lattice and a “small-world” one. These results are corroborated by the investigation of an Ising model defined on the network, showing for every finite disorder fraction a crossover from a high-temperature region dominated by the underlying one-dimensional structure to a mean-field like low-temperature region. In particular there exists a finite-temperature ferromagnetic phase transition as soon as the disorder strength is finite. [0.5cm] Received 29 March 1999 and Received in final form 21 May 1999     

Frustrated Blume-Emery-Griffiths model

A generalised integer S Ising spin glass model is analysed using the replica formalism. The bilinear couplings are assumed to have a Gaussian distribution with ferromagnetic mean . Incorporation of a quadrupolar interaction term and a chemical potential leads to a richer phase diagram with transitions of first and second order. The first order transition may be interpreted as a phase separation, and contrary to what has been argued previously, it persists in the presence of disorder. Finally, the stability of the replica symmetric solution with respect to fluctuations in replica space is analysed, and the transition lines are obtained both analytically and numerically. Received 13 January 1997     

The spin-2 antiferromagnet on the Bethe lattice

The complete phase diagrams of the antiferromagnetic spin-2 Blume-Capel Ising system is studied on the Bethe lattice by the use of exact recursion relations. In order to specify the states of the system, i.e. the different spin configurations, the ground state phase diagram is obtained on the (H/|J|, D/|J|) plane corresponding to the reduced external magnetic and crystal fields, respectively. As a result, the thermal change of the order-parameters, the magnetisations belonging to the two sublattice system, was investigated to obtain the full phase diagrams of the system on the (H/|J|, kT/|J|) planes. The behavior of the order-parameters with respect to the external magnetic field was also studied for the given values of D/|J|. Besides the interesting thermal and external magnetic field change of the sublattice magnetisations, the system also exhibits interesting critical behaviors including first- and second-order phase transitions, therefore, triciritical points and the reentrant behavior. The calculations are carried out for the coordination number q=4, corresponding to the square lattice, only.     

The strange man in random networks of automata

We have performed computer simulations of Kauffman’s automata on several graphs, such as the regular square lattice and invasion percolation clusters, in order to investigate phase transitions, radial distributions of the mean total damage (dynamical exponent) and propagation speeds of the damage when one adds a damaging agent, nicknamed “strange man”. Despite the increase in the damaging efficiency, we have not observed any appreciable change of the transition threshold to chaos neither for the short-range nor for the small-world case on the square lattices when the strange man is added, in comparison to when small initial damages are inserted in the system. Particularly, we have checked the damage spreading when some connections are removed on the square lattice and when one considers special invasion percolation clusters (high boundary-saturation clusters). It is seen that the propagation speed in these systems is quite sensible to the degree of dilution on the square lattice and to the degree of saturation on invasion percolation clusters.     

Universal diffusive decay of correlations in gapped one-dimensional systems

We apply a semiclassical approach to express finite temperature dynamical correlation functions of gapped spin models analytically. We show that the approach of [á. Rapp, G. Zaránd, Phys. Rev. B 74, 014433 (2006)] can also be used for the S = 1 antiferromagnetic Heisenberg chain, whose lineshape can be measured experimentally. We generalize our calculations to O(N) quantum spin models and the sine-Gordon model in one dimension, and show that in all these models, the finite temperature decay of certain correlation functions is characterized by the same universal semiclassical relaxation function.     

Order disorder transitions in Ising models in transverse fields with second neighbour interactions

The (ferromagnetic) order-disorder transitions in a class of Ising models with second neighbour interaction in transverse fields is studied using the path integral method. Within the limitations of the method, the critical fields at zero temperature are estimated for different systems.     

Stability conditions for fermionic Ising spin-glass models in the presence of a transverse field

The stability of a spin-glass (SG) phase is analyzed in detail for a fermionic Ising SG (FISG) model in the presence of a magnetic transverse field Γ. The fermionic path integral formalism, replica method and static approach have been used to obtain the thermodynamic potential within one step replica symmetry breaking ansatz. The replica symmetry (RS) results show that the SG phase is always unstable against the replicon. Moreover, the two other eigenvalues λ_± of the Hessian matrix (related to the diagonal elements of the replica matrix) can indicate an additional instability to the SG phase, which enhances when Γ is increased. Therefore, this result suggests that the study of the replicon cannot be enough to guarantee the RS stability in the present quantum FISG model, especially near the quantum critical point. In particular, the FISG model allows changing the occupation number of sites, so one can get a first order transition when the chemical potential exceeds a certain value. In this region, the replicon and the λ_± indicate instability problems for the SG solution close to all ranges of a first order boundary.     

Cluster evaporation transition in finite system

Using Wang-Landau entropic sampling we study the Ising model in the framework of microcanonical ensemble (fixed magnetization). We are working for lattice size up to 1500×1500 in two dimensions and 100×100×100 in three dimensions. As we approach the coexistence curve from inside, varying temperature and keeping the magnetization constant, a first-order phase transition takes place for a temperature near the coexistence curve if the lattice size is large enough. We analyze various features of this transition as well as the scaling behavior of characteristic quantities and we compare our numerical results with existing theories.     

Suppression of superconductivity in high-T c cuprates due to nonmagnetic impurities: Implications for the order parameter symmetry

We show explicitly that the broad histogram single-spin-flip random walk dynamics does not give correct microcanonical average even in one dimension. The dynamics violates the detailed balance condition by an amount proportional to the inverse system size. As a result, in distribution different configurations with the same energy can have different probabilities. We propose a modified dynamics which ensures detailed balance and the histogram obtained from this dynamics is exactly flat. The broad histogram equation relating the average number of potential moves to density of states is generally valid. Received 2 October 1998 and Received in final form 13 October 1998     

Third and fourth order phase transitions: Exact solution for the Ising model on the Cayley tree

In this work we present the first exact solution of a system of interacting particles with phase transitions of order higher than two. The presented analytical derivation shows that the Ising model on the Cayley tree exhibits a line of third order phase transition points, between temperatures and , and a line of fourth order phase transitions between T_BP and ∞, where k_B is the Boltzmann constant, and J is the nearest-neighbor interaction parameter.