Physics – Condensed Matter – Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
Scientific paper
2000-09-05
Phys. Rev. B 61, 8960 (2000)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
16 pages, 5 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevB.61.8960
The specific heat (Cm) and optical birefringence (\Delta n) for the magnetic percolation threshold system Fe(0.25)Zn(0.75)F2 are analyzed with the aid of Monte Carlo (MC) simulations. Both \Delta n and the magnetic energy (Um) are governed by a linear combination of near-neighbor spin-spin correlations, which we have determined for \Delta n using MC simulations modeled closely after the real system. Near a phase transition or when only one interaction dominates, the temperature derivative of the birefringence [{d(\Delta n)}/{dT}] is expected to be proportional Cm since all relevant correlations necessarily have the same temperature dependence. Such a proportionality does not hold for Fe(0.25)Zn(0.75)F2 at low temperatures, however, indicating that neither condition above holds. MC results for this percolation system demonstrate that the shape of the temperature derivative of correlations associated with the frustrating third-nearest-neighbor interaction differs from that of the dominant second-nearest-neighbor interaction, accurately explaining the experimentally observed behavior quantitatively.
Barber William C.
Belanger David P.
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