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Cluster variation - Pade` approximants method for the simple cubic Ising model
The cluster variation - Pade` approximant method is a recently proposed tool,
based on the extrapolation of low/high temperature results obtained with the
cluster variation method, for the determination of critical parameters in
Ising-like models. Here the method is applied to the three-dimensional simple
cubic Ising model, and new results, obtained with an 18-site basic cluster, are
reported. Other techniques for extracting non-classical critical exponents are
also applied and their results compared with those by the cluster variation -
Pade` approximant method.Comment: 8 RevTeX pages, 3 PostScript figure
Magnetic ordering of weakly coupled frustrated quantum spin chains
The ordering temperature of a quasi-one-dimensional system, consisting of
weakly interacting quantum spin-1/2 chains with antiferromagnetic
spin-frustrating couplings (or zig-zag ladder) is calculated. The results show
that a quantum critical point between two phases of the one-dimensional
subsystem plays a crucial role. If the one-dimensional subsystem is in the
antiferromagnetic-like phase in the ground state, similar to the phase of a
spin chain without frustration, weak couplings yield magnetic ordering of the
Neel type. For intra-chain spin-frustrating interactions larger than the
critical one (at which the quantum phase transition takes place), the
quasi-one-dimensional spin system manifests a spiral magnetic incommensurate
ordering. The obtained results of our quantum theory are compared with the
quasi-classical approximations. The calculated features of magnetic ordering
are expected to be generic for weakly coupled quantum spin chains with gapless
excitations and spin-frustrating nearest and next-nearest neighbor
interactions.Comment: 6 pages, 2 figure
Observation of thermally activated glassiness and memory dip in a-NbSi insulating thin films
We present electrical conductance measurements on amorphous NbSi insulating
thin films. These films display out-of equilibrium electronic features that are
markedly different from what has been reported so far in disordered insulators.
Like in the most studied systems (indium oxide and granular Al films), a slow
relaxation of the conductance is observed after a quench to liquid helium
temperature which gives rise to the growth of a memory dip in MOSFET devices.
But unlike in these systems, this memory dip and the related conductance
relaxations are still visible up to room temperature, with clear signatures of
a temperature dependent dynamics
On the low-temperature phase of the three-state antiferromagnetic Potts model on the simple cubic lattice
The three-state antiferromagnetic Potts model on the simple cubic lattice is
investigated using the cluster variation method in the cube and the star-cube
approximations. The broken-sublattice-symmetry phase is found to be stable in
the whole low-temperature region, contrary to previous results obtained using a
modified cluster variation method. The tiny free energy difference between the
broken-sublattice-symmetry and the permutationally-symmetric-sublattices phases
is calculated in the two approximations and turns out to be smaller in the
(more accurate) star-cube approximation than in the cube one.Comment: 4 pages REVTeX + 2 PostScript figures, to be published in Phys. Rev.
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Destruction of superconductivity in disordered materials : a dimensional crossover
The disorder-induced Superconductor-to-Insulator Transition in amorphous
NbSi two-dimensional thin films is studied for different niobium
compositions through a variation of the sample thickness . We show that
the critical thickness , separating a superconducting regime from an
insulating one, increases strongly with diminishing , thus attaining values
of over 100 {\AA}. The corresponding phase diagram in the plane is
inferred and related to the three-dimensional situation. The two-dimensional
Superconductor-to-Insulator Transition well connects with the three-dimensional
Superconductor-to-Metal Transition
Universal properties of highly frustrated quantum magnets in strong magnetic fields
The purpose of the present paper is two-fold. On the one hand, we review some
recent studies on the low-temperature strong-field thermodynamic properties of
frustrated quantum spin antiferromagnets which admit the so-called
localized-magnon eigenstates. One the other hand, we provide some complementary
new results. We focus on the linear independence of the localized-magnon
states, the estimation of their degeneracy with the help of auxiliary classical
lattice-gas models and the analysis of the contribution of these states to
thermodynamics.Comment: Paper based on the invited talk given by J. Richter at the
International Conference "Statistical Physics 2006. Condensed Matter: Theory
and Applications" dedicated to the 90th anniversary of Ilya Lifshitz
(Kharkiv, 11-15 September, 2006
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