Quenched disorder and spin-glass correlations in XY nematics

Details Quenched disorder and spin-glass correlations in XY nematics Quenched disorder and spin-glass correlations in XY nematics

2006-07-11

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0607279v2

J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 39, 9693-9708 (2006)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

19 pages, 6 figures, corrected typos

Scientific paper

10.1088/0305-4470/39/31/003

We present a theoretical study of the equilibrium ordering in a 3D XY nematic system with quenched random disorder. Within this model, treated with the replica trick and Gaussian variational method, the correlation length is obtained as a function of the local nematic order parameter and the effective disorder strength. These results clarify what happens in the limiting cases of diminishing order parameter and disorder strength, that is near a phase transition of a pure system. In particular, it is found that quenched disorder is irrelevant as the order parameter tends to zero and hence does not change the character of the continuous XY nematic to isotropic phase transition. We discuss how these results compare with experiments and simulations

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