On the critical behavior of disordered quantum magnets: The relevance of rare regions

Details On the critical behavior of disordered quantum magnets: The relevance of rare regions On the critical behavior of disordered quantum magnets: The relevance of rare regions

1999-05-05

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9905047v2

Phys. Rev. B vol. 60, pp. 10150-10163 (1999)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

16 pp., REVTeX, epsf, 2 figs, final version as published

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.60.10150

The effects of quenched disorder on the critical properties of itinerant quantum antiferromagnets and ferromagnets are considered. Particular attention is paid to locally ordered spatial regions that are formed in the presence of quenched disorder even when the bulk system is still in the paramagnetic phase. These rare regions or local moments are reflected in the existence of spatially inhomogeneous saddle points of the Landau-Ginzburg-Wilson functional. We derive an effective theory that takes into account small fluctuations around all of these saddle points. The resulting free energy functional contains a new term in addition to those obtained within the conventional perturbative approach, and it comprises what would be considered non-perturbative effects within the latter. A renormalization group analysis shows that in the case of antiferromagnets, the previously found critical fixed point is unstable with respect to this new term, and that no stable critical fixed point exists at one-loop order. This is contrasted with the case of itinerant ferromagnets, where we find that the previously found critical behavior is unaffected by the rare regions due to an effective long-ranged interaction between the order parameter fluctuations.

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