Department of Physics Papers
Document Type
Journal Article
Date of this Version
12-23-1974
Publication Source
Physical Review Letters
Volume
33
Issue
26
Start Page
1540
Last Page
1543
DOI
10.1103/PhysRevLett.33.1540
Abstract
A renormalization-group technique is used to study the critical behavior of spin models in which each interaction has a small independent random width about its average value. The cluster approximation of Niemeyer and Van Leeuwen indicates that the two-dimensional Ising model has the same critical behavior as the homogeneous system. The ε expansion for n-component continuous spins shows that this behavior holds to first order in ε for n>4. For n<4, there is a new stable fixed point with 2ν=1+[3n/16(n−1)]ε.
Recommended Citation
Harris, A., & Lubensky, T. C. (1974). Renormalization-Group Approach to the Critical Behavior of Random-Spin Models. Physical Review Letters, 33 (26), 1540-1543. http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.33.1540
Date Posted: 20 August 2015
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