Physics – Condensed Matter – Statistical Mechanics
Scientific paper
1999-04-06
Physics
Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
Uses epsf; 6 pages; 6 figures included; to appear in Phys. Rev. B
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevB.60.1033
We study the Blume-Emery-Griffiths model in a random crystal field in two and three dimensions, through a real-space renormalization-group approach and a mean-field approximation, respectively. According to the two-dimensional renormalization-group calculation, non-symmetry-breaking first-order phase transitions are eliminated and symmetry-breaking discontinuous transitions are replaced by continuous ones, when disorder is introduced. On the other hand, the mean-field calculation predicts that first-order transitions are not eliminated by disorder, although some changes are introduced in the phase diagrams. We make some comments on the consequences of a degeneracy parameter, which may be relevant in martensitic transitions.
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