The McCoy-Wu Model in the Mean-field Approximation

Details The McCoy-Wu Model in the Mean-field Approximation The McCoy-Wu Model in the Mean-field Approximation

1998-04-14

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9804132v1

J. Phys. A 31 (1998) 5193-5202

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

LaTeX file with iop macros, 13 pages, 7 eps figures, to appear in J. Phys. A

Scientific paper

10.1088/0305-4470/31/23/003

We consider a system with randomly layered ferromagnetic bonds (McCoy-Wu model) and study its critical properties in the frame of mean-field theory. In the low-temperature phase there is an average spontaneous magnetization in the system, which vanishes as a power law at the critical point with the critical exponents $\beta \approx 3.6$ and $\beta_1 \approx 4.1$ in the bulk and at the surface of the system, respectively. The singularity of the specific heat is characterized by an exponent $\alpha \approx -3.1$. The samples reduced critical temperature $t_c=T_c^{av}-T_c$ has a power law distribution $P(t_c) \sim t_c^{\omega}$ and we show that the difference between the values of the critical exponents in the pure and in the random system is just $\omega \approx 3.1$. Above the critical temperature the thermodynamic quantities behave analytically, thus the system does not exhibit Griffiths singularities.

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