Replica symmetry breaking transition of the weakly anisotropic Heisenberg spin glass in magnetic fields

The spin and the chirality orderings of the three-dimensional Heisenberg spin glass with the weak random anisotropy are studied under applied magnetic fields by equilibrium Monte Carlo simulations. A replica symmetry breaking transition occurs in the chiral sector accompanied by the simultaneous spin-glass order. The ordering behavior differs significantly from that of the Ising spin glass, despite the similarity in the global symmetry. Our observation is consistent with the spin-chirality decoupling-recoupling scenario of a spin-glass transition.     

Frequency dependence of the spin glass freezing temperatures in icosahedral R–Mg–Zn (R = rare earth) quasicrystals

We present ac susceptibility measurements with the frequency spanning three orders of magnitude on single grain, icosahedral R–Mg–Zn (R = rare earth) quasicrystals. The freezing temperature in Gd-based, Heisenberg spin glasses in this family increases by ～2% with a frequency increase from 10?Hz to 10?kHz, whereas the freezing temperature in the non-Heisenberg members of the family is significantly more responsive to the frequency change (by 16–22%), suggesting that an additional magnetic anisotropy distribution in the non-Heisenberg spin glasses causes changes in the low frequency magnetic dynamics.     

Aging, rejuvenation and memory phenomena in spin glasses

In this paper, we review several important features of the out-of-equilibrium dynamics of spin glasses. Starting with the simplest experiments, we discuss the scaling laws used to describe the isothermal aging observed in spin glasses after a quench down to the low-temperature phase. We report in particular new results on the sub-aging behaviour of spin glasses. We then discuss the rejuvenation and memory effects observed when a spin glass is submitted to temperature variations during aging, from the point of view of both energy landscape pictures and real-space pictures. We highlight the fact that both approaches point out the necessity of hierarchical processes involved in aging. Finally, we report an investigation of the effect of small temperature variations on aging in spin glass samples with various anisotropies which indicates that this hierarchy depends on the spin anisotropy.     

Role of the spin anisotropy of the interchain interaction in weakly coupled antiferromagnetic Heisenberg chains

In quasi-one-dimensional(q1D) quantum antiferromagnets, the complicated interplay of intrachain and interchain exchange couplings may give rise to rich phenomena. Motivated by recent progress on field-induced phase transitions in the q1D antiferromagnetic(AFM) compound YbAlO_3, we study the phase diagram of spin-1/2 Heisenberg chains with Ising anisotropic interchain couplings under a longitudinal magnetic field via large-scale quantum Monte Carlo simulations,and investigate the role of the spin anisotropy of the interchain coupling on the ground state of the system. We find that the Ising anisotropy of the interchain coupling can significantly enhance the longitudinal spin correlations and drive the system to an incommensurate AFM phase at intermediate magnetic fields, which is understood as a longitudinal spin density wave(LSDW). With increasing field, the ground state changes to a canted AFM order with transverse spin correlations. We further provide a global phase diagram showing how the competition between the LSDW and the canted AFM states is tuned by the Ising anisotropy of the interchain coupling.     

Thermodynamic glass transition in finite dimensions

Using an effective potential method, a replica formulism is set up for describing supercooled liquids near their glass transition. The resulting potential is equivalent to that for an Ising spin glass in a magnetic field. Results taken from the droplet picture of spin glasses are then used to provide an explanation of the main features of fragile glasses.     

p-Spin model in finite dimensions and its relation to structural glasses

The p-spin spin-glass model has been studied extensively at mean-field level because of the insights which it provides into the mode-coupling approach to structural glasses and the nature of the glass transition. We demonstrate explicitly that the finite-dimensional version of the three-spin model is in the same universality class as an Ising spin glass in a magnetic field. Assuming that the droplet picture of Ising spin glasses is valid we discuss how this universality may provide insights into why structural glasses are either "fragile" or "strong."     

Absence of an Almeida-Thouless line in three-dimensional spin glasses

We present results of Monte Carlo simulations of the three-dimensional Edwards-Anderson Ising spin glass in the presence of a (random) field. A finite-size scaling analysis of the correlation length shows no indication of a transition, in contrast with the zero-field case. This suggests that there is no Almeida-Thouless line for short-range Ising spin glasses.     

A new method for calculation of the magnetic properties in one- and two-dimensional spin systems with anisotropic Heisenberg exchange

A new approximation method is proposed for the calculation of the magnetic susceptibility of one-dimensional assembly of spins and the critical temperature of two-dimensional one both with the anisotropic Heisenberg exchange. In a linear chain system, every spins are grouped into pairs of adjacent spins (pair-approximation) or clusters of adjacent three spins ((q+1)-approximation), and the partition function of the total spin system is approximated as a sum of products of the partitions functions for the pairs or the clusters. Then the partition function of the anisotropic Heisenberg spin system is shown to reduce into a form of the Ising spin system with modified coupling constants. The exact result for the Ising chain system enables us to obtain an analytical expression for the magnetic susceptibility of anisotropic Heisenberg chain system. The same approximations are also applied to two-dimensional lattices, and the critical temperatures of the square, triangular, and honeycomb lattices with anisotropic Heisenberg exchange are calculated as a function of anisotropy parameter. The results are compared with those of the existing theories and shown to be quite excellent.     

Instability of Heisenberg-spin-glass-phase transitions

It is pointed out that there should be no stable phase transitions for XY- and Heisenberg spin glasses with d ? 4 dimensions, and for Ising spin glasses with d ? 2, in the presence of arbitrarily small random magnetic fields. In the absence of such fields the critical dimensions are 2 and 1, respectively.     

Thermal Robustness of Entanglement in a Dissipative Two-Dimensional Spin System in an Inhomogeneous Magnetic Field

Recently new novel magnetic phases were shown to exist in the asymptotic steady states of spin systems coupled to dissipative environments at zero temperature. Tuning the different system parameters led to quantum phase transitions among those states. We study, here, a finite two-dimensional Heisenberg triangular spin lattice coupled to a dissipative Markovian Lindblad environment at finite temperature. We show how applying an inhomogeneous magnetic field to the system at different degrees of anisotropy may significantly affect the spin states, and the entanglement properties and distribution among the spins in the asymptotic steady state of the system. In particular, applying an inhomogeneous field with an inward (growing) gradient toward the central spin is found to considerably enhance the nearest neighbor entanglement and its robustness against the thermal dissipative decay effect in the completely anisotropic (Ising) system, whereas the beyond nearest neighbor ones vanish entirely. The spins of the system in this case reach different steady states depending on their positions in the lattice. However, the inhomogeneity of the field shows no effect on the entanglement in the completely isotropic (XXX) system, which vanishes asymptotically under any system configuration and the spins relax to a separable (disentangled) steady state with all the spins reaching a common spin state. Interestingly, applying the same field to a partially anisotropic (XYZ) system does not just enhance the nearest neighbor entanglements and their thermal robustness but all the long-range ones as well, while the spins relax asymptotically to very distinguished spin states, which is a sign of a critical behavior taking place at this combination of system anisotropy and field inhomogeneity.     

Fermionic Ising glasses in magnetic transverse field with BCS pairing interaction

We study a fermionic infinited-ranged Ising spin glass with a real space BCS interaction in the presence of an applied transverse field. The problem is formulated in the integral functional formalism where the SU(2) spins are given in terms of bilinear combinations of Grassmann fields. The problem is solved within static approximation and the replica symmetry ansatz combined with previous approaches used to study the critical behavior of the quantum Ising spin glass in a transverse field and the spin glass Heisenberg model with BCS pairing. Our results show that the transverse field has strong effect in the phase boundary of the spin glass phase and the PAIR phase in which there is a long range order corresponding to formations of pairs. The location of the tricritical point in the PAIR phase transition line is also affected.     

Zero field muon spin relaxation in simple magnets and spin glasses

A theory is developed for the calculation of zero field muon spin relaxation function for classical simple magnets (Ising, XY, and Heisenberg) in D(=1,2,3) dimensions. The results are different from the Kubo-Toyabe theory, except for Heisenberg system in three dimension. Relation between the relaxation function and random field distribution is dicussed and a new method of analysing experimental data is suggested and discussed in the context of spin glasses.     

The magnetic phase transition in amorphous ferromagnets and in spin glasses

The magnetic phase transition in materials with exchange disorder (amorphous ferromagnets, spin glasses) is discussed. In the critical temperature range the behavior of amorphous ferromagnetic transition metal-metalloid glasses is found to be similar to the one derived for a three-dimensional homogeneous Heisenberg ferromagnet. The most prominent difference between disordered and homogeneous materials is manifested in a large temperature range of deviations from the mean field behavior beyond the critical region, as observed experimentally for the temperature dependence of the linear susceptibility of amorphous ferromagnets and of the nonlinear susceptibility of spin glasses. A molecular field theory with correlations in space and time is developed, which relates the deviations from the mean field behavior to the interplay between the temperature dependent thermal correlations in the spin system and the spatial fluctuations of the material. Application to dynamical processes (kinetic critical slowing down) is discussed.     

Ordering in Heisenberg spin glasses

For five different Heisenberg spin glass systems, torque experiments were performed in applied magnetic fields up to 4 T. The Dzyaloshinski-Moriya random anisotropy strengths, the in-field torque onset temperatures, and the torque relaxation were measured. Critical exponents were estimated independently using a standard protocol. The data are strong evidence for a true spin glass ordered state which survives under high applied magnetic fields; they can be interpreted consistently in terms of a chiral ordering model with replica symmetry breaking as proposed by Kawamura and co-workers.     

Dynamical response of quantum spin-glass models at t = 0

We study the behavior of two archetypal quantum spin glasses at T = 0 by exact diagonalization techniques: the random Ising model in a transverse field and the random Heisenberg model. The behavior of the dynamical spin response is obtained in the spin-glass ordered phase. In both models it is gapless and has the general form chi(")(omega) = qdelta(omega)+chi(")(reg)(omega), with chi(")(reg)(omega) approximately omega for the Ising and chi(")(reg)(omega) approximately const for the Heisenberg, at low frequencies. The method provides new insight to the physical nature of the low-lying excitations.     

Ising-type critical exponents of the fully frustrated spin-1/2 Heisenberg FM/AF square bilayer at a critical magnetic field

The fully frustrated spin-1/2 Heisenberg FM/AF square bilayer in a magnetic field with the ferromagnetic inter-dimer interaction and the antiferromagnetic intra-dimer interaction is explored by the use of localized many-magnon approach, which allows to connect the original purely quantum Heisenberg spin model on a square bilayer with the effective ferromagnetic Ising model on a simple square lattice. Magnetization and specific heat are investigated exactly at a field-driven phase transition from the singlet-dimer phase towards the fully saturated ferromagnetic phase, which changes from a discontinuous phase transition to a continuous one at a certain critical temperature. The mapping correspondence between the spin-1/2 Heisenberg FM/AF square bilayer and the ferromagnetic Ising square lattice suggests for this special critical point of the spin-1/2 Heisenberg FM/AF square bilayer critical exponents from the standard two-dimensional Ising universality class.     

An In-Depth View of the Microscopic Dynamics of Ising Spin Glasses at Fixed Temperature

Using the special-purpose computer Janus, we follow the nonequilibrium dynamics of the Ising spin glass in three dimensions for eleven orders of magnitude. The use of integral estimators for the coherence and correlation lengths allows us to study dynamic heterogeneities and the presence of a replicon mode and to obtain safe bounds on the Edwards-Anderson order parameter below the critical temperature. We obtain good agreement with experimental determinations of the temperature-dependent decay exponents for the thermoremanent magnetization. This magnitude is observed to scale with the much harder to measure coherence length, a potentially useful result for experimentalists. The exponents for energy relaxation display a linear dependence on temperature and reasonable extrapolations to the critical point. We conclude examining the time growth of the coherence length, with a comparison of critical and activated dynamics.     

Magnetic specific heat of the honeycomb lattice of spin one-half with anisotropic Heisenberg exchange by a new method

The magnetic specific heat of the honeycomb lattice of $\text{S =}\text{1}\text{2}$ Heisenberg spin with anisotropic exchange is calculated by using the new approximation method reported in a previous paper. In the spin system with the anisotropy parameter |γ|<1 (Ising-Heisenberg system), the specific heat shows a similar divergence as that of the pure Ising spin system, namely a logarithmic divergence at the critical temperature. The same approximation is also applied to the spin system with |γ|>1 (Heisenberg XY system), showing a divergence of the same kind.     

Temperature effects on the two-magnon Raman-scattering of antiferromagnets

In this first of two papers we investigate the temperature effect on the spin wave energy and the two-magnon Raman scattering cross section for an antiferromagnet with rutile structure in the spin wave scheme. In the Heisenberg hamiltonian we consider the exchange interaction between magnetic neighbors up to the third order, an effective anisotropy field, and an external magnetic field. In the effective Raman hamiltonian an anisotropy factor, allowed by the crystal symmetry, is taken into account.The theory employs a Green's function method, where the Green's functions are obtained from equations of motion. The results are similar to published ones obtained with diagrammatic techniques.Extract from thesis, Munich, 1974     

Field dependent specific heat and longitudinal magnetization of the quantum magnet layer Cs2CuCl4: Anisotropy effects

We have addressed the specific heat and magnetization of an anisotropic spin-1/2 triangular Heisenberg antiferromagnet Cs₂CuCl₄ in the presence of magnetic field at finite temperature. We have investigated the behavior of thermodynamic properties by means of excitation spectrum in terms of a hard core bosonic representation. The effect of in-plane anisotropy on thermodynamic properties has also been studied via the bosonic model by Green’s function approach. This anisotropy is considered for exchange constants that couple spin components perpendicular to magnetic field direction. We have found the temperature dependence of the specific heat and longitudinal magnetization in the gapped field induced spin-polarized phase for various magnetic fields and anisotropy parameters. Furthermore we have studied the magnetic field dependence of specific heat and magnetization for various anisotropy parameters. Our results show temperature dependence of specific heat includes a peak so that its temperature position goes to higher temperature with increase of magnetic field. We have found the magnetic field dependence of specific heat shows a monotonic decreasing behavior for various magnetic fields due to increase of energy gap in the excitation spectrum.