Random-Field Effects in Two- and Three-Dimensional Ising Antiferromagnets

H. Yoshizawa, R. A. Cowley, G. Shirane, R. J. Birgeneau, H. J. Guggenheim, and H. Ikeda
Phys. Rev. Lett. 48, 438 – Published 8 February 1982
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Abstract

Neutron scattering experiments have been performed in the diluted antiferromagnets Rb2Co0.7Mg0.3F4 and Co0.3Zn0.7F2 in a uniform magnetic field. These systems are isomorphous to, respectively, two- and three-dimensional Ising ferromagnets in a site-random magnetic field. It is shown that small random magnetic fields destroy the long-range order at all temperatures, consistent with three as the lower marginal dimensionality; the structure factor in the disordered state is predominantly a squared Lorentzian.

  • Received 7 December 1981

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.48.438

©1982 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

H. Yoshizawa, R. A. Cowley*, and G. Shirane

  • Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973

R. J. Birgeneau

  • Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139

H. J. Guggenheim

  • Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey 07974

H. Ikeda

  • Department of Physics, Ochanomizu University, Ohtsuka, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 112, Japan

  • *Permanent address: Department of Physics, University of Edinburgh, Mayfield Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JZ, Scotland.

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Vol. 48, Iss. 6 — 8 February 1982

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