Percolation in three-dimensional random field Ising magnets

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A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä

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2002-10-01

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PHYSICAL REVIEW B, Volume 66, issue 14

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The structure of the three-dimensional (3D) random field Ising magnet is studied by ground-state calculations. We investigate the percolation of the minority-spin orientation in the paramagnetic phase above the bulk phase transition, located at [Δ/J]c ≃ 2.27, where Δ is the standard deviation of the Gaussian random fields (J = 1). With an external field H there is a disorder-strength-dependent critical field ± Hc(Δ) for the down (or up) spin spanning. The percolation transition is in the standard percolation universality class. Hc ∼ (Δ - Δp)δ, where Δp = 2.43 ± 0.01 and δ = 1.31 ± 0.03, implying a critical line for Δc < Δ ≤ Δp. When, with zero external field, Δ is decreased from a large value there is a transition from the simultaneous up- and down-spin spanning, with probability π↑↓ = 1.00 to π↑↓ = 0. This is located at Δ = 2.32 ± 0.01, i.e., above Δc. The spanning cluster has the fractal dimension of standard percolation, Df = 2.53 at H = Hc(Δ). We provide evidence that this is asymptotically true even at H= 0 for Δc < Δ ≤ Δp beyond a crossover scale that diverges as Δc is approached from above. Percolation implies extra finite-size effects in the ground states of the 3D random field Ising model.

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Seppälä , E T , Pulkkinen , A M & Alava , M J 2002 , ' Percolation in three-dimensional random field Ising magnets ' , Physical Review B , vol. 66 , no. 14 , 144403 , pp. 1-8 . https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.66.144403