146 research outputs found
Numerical simulations of liquids with amorphous boundary conditions
It has recently become clear that simulations under amorphpous boundary
conditions (ABCs) can provide valuable information on the dynamics and
thermodynamics of disordered systems with no obvious ordered parameter. In
particular, they allow to detect a correlation length that is not measurable
with standard correlation functions. Here we explain what exactly is meant by
ABCs, discuss their relation with point-to-set correlations and briefly
describe some recent results obtained with this technique.Comment: Presented at STATPHYS 2
Metamagnetic Quantum Criticality
A renormalization group treatment of metamagnetic quantum criticality in
metals is presented. In clean systems the universality class is found to be of
the overdamped, conserving (dynamical exponent z=3) Ising type. Detailed
results are obtained for the field and temperature dependence of physical
quantities including the differential susceptibility, resistivity and specific
heat near the transition. An application of the theory is made to Sr3Ru2O7,
which appears to exhibit a metamagnetic critical end-point at a very low
temperature and a field of order 5-7T.Comment: 4 pages latex (Revtex 4) and 3 eps figure
A Search for Fluctuation-Dissipation Theorem Violations in Spin-Glasses from Susceptibility Data
We propose an indirect way of studying the fluctuation-dissipation relation
in spin-glasses that only uses available susceptibility data. It is based on a
dynamic extension of the Parisi-Toulouse approximation and a Curie-Weiss
treatment of the average magnetic couplings. We present the results of the
analysis of several sets of experimental data obtained from various samples.Comment: 7 pages, 4 figure
Fluctuation-dissipation ratio of a spin glass in the aging regime
We present the first experimental determination of the time autocorrelation
of magnetization in the non-stationary regime of a spin glass.
Quantitative comparison with the response, the magnetic susceptibility
, is made using a new experimental setup allowing both measurements
in the same conditions. Clearly, we observe a non-linear
fluctuation-dissipation relation between and , depending weakly on
the waiting time . Following theoretical developments on mean-field models,
and lately on short range models, it is predicted that in the limit of long
times, the relationship should become independent on . A scaling
procedure allows us to extrapolate to the limit of long waiting times.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figure
Robust paramagnetism in Bi2-xMxRu2O7 (M=Mn,Fe,Co,Ni,Cu) pyrochlore
We report physical property characterization of Bi2-xMxRu2O7 pyrochlores,
including magnetic suseptibility, resistivity, and Seebeck coefficients. The
solid solution exists up to x=0.5 for (M=Cu,Ni,Co) and up to x=0.1 for
(M=Fe,Mn). None of the doped materials exhibit ferromagnetism or any localized
ruthenium moment behavior. Instead we find the Ru-O and Bi-O sublattices to be
essentially independent, with any magnetism resulting from the unpaired
transition metal dopant spins. Cobalt substitution for bismuth results in
localized Co{2+}, and low temperature spin-glass transitions in several cases.
Nickel moments on the pyrochlore lattice display properties intermediate to
localized and itinerant. Finally, copper doping results in only an enhancement
of the Pauli metallic density of states.Comment: submitted, Phys. Rev.
First order phase transition of the vortex lattice in twinned YBa2Cu3O7 single crystals in tilted magnetic fields
We present an exhaustive analysis of transport measurements performed in
twinned YBa2Cu3O7 single crystals which stablishes that the vortex solid-liquid
transition is first order when the magnetic field H is applied at an angle
theta away from the direction of the twin planes. We show that the resistive
transitions are hysteretic and the V-I curves are non-linear, displaying a
characteristic s-shape at the melting line Hm(T), which scales as
epsilon(theta)Hm(T,theta). These features are gradually lost when the critical
point H*(theta) is approached. Above H*(theta) the V-I characteristics show a
linear response in the experimentally accessible V-I window, and the transition
becomes reversible. Finally we show that the first order phase transition takes
place between a highly correlated vortex liquid in the field direction and a
solid state of unknown symmetry. As a consequence, the available data support
the scenario for a vortex-line melting rather than a vortex sublimation as
recently suggested [T.Sasagawa et al. PRL 80, 4297 (1998)].Comment: 10 pages, 8 figures, submitted to PR
Spin Fluctuations and the Magnetic Phase Diagram of ZrZn2
The magnetic properties of the weak itinerant ferromagnet ZrZn_2 are analyzed
using Landau theory based on a comparison of density functional calculations
and experimental data as a function of field and pressure. We find that the
magnetic properties are strongly affected by the nearby quantum critical point,
even at zero pressure; LDA calculations neglecting quantum critical spin
fluctuations overestimate the magnetization by a factor of approximately three.
Using renormalized Landau theory, we extract pressure dependence of the
fluctuation amplitude. It appears that a simple scaling based on the
fluctuation-dissipation theorem provides a good description of this pressure
dependence.Comment: 4 revtex page
On the high-density expansion for Euclidean Random Matrices
Diagrammatic techniques to compute perturbatively the spectral properties of
Euclidean Random Matrices in the high-density regime are introduced and
discussed in detail. Such techniques are developed in two alternative and very
different formulations of the mathematical problem and are shown to give
identical results up to second order in the perturbative expansion. One method,
based on writing the so-called resolvent function as a Taylor series, allows to
group the diagrams in a small number of topological classes, providing a simple
way to determine the infrared (small momenta) behavior of the theory up to
third order, which is of interest for the comparison with experiments. The
other method, which reformulates the problem as a field theory, can instead be
used to study the infrared behaviour at any perturbative order.Comment: 29 page
Heterogeneous aging in spin glasses
We introduce a set of theoretical ideas that form the basis for an analytical
framework capable of describing nonequilibrium dynamics in glassy systems. We
test the resulting scenario by comparing its predictions with numerical
simulations of short-range spin glasses. Local fluctuations and responses are
shown to be connected by a generalized local out-of-equilibrium
fluctuation-dissipation relation. Scaling relationships are uncovered for the
slow evolution of heterogeneities at all time scales.Comment: Substantially reorganized to improve clarity of exposition. Accepted
for publication in Physical Review Letters. 5 pages, 4 figure
Vortex Flow and Transverse Flux Screening at the Bose Glass Transition
We investigate the vortex phase diagram in untwinned YBaCuO single crystals
with columnar defects. These randomly distributed defects, produced by heavy
ion irradiation, are expected to induce a ``Bose Glass'' phase of localized
vortices characterized by a vanishing resistance and a Meissner effect for
magnetic fields transverse to the defect axis. We directly observe the
transverse Meissner effect using an array of Hall probe magnetometers. As
predicted, the Meissner state breaks down at temperatures Ts that decrease
linearly with increasing transverse magnetic field. However, Ts falls well
below the conventional melting temperature Tm determined by a vanishing
resistivity, suggesting an intermediate regime where flux lines are effectively
localized even when rotated off the columnar defects.Comment: 15 pages, 5 figure
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