Abstract
We study the quantum phase transition of an itinerant antiferromagnet with cubic anisotropy in the presence of quenched disorder, paying particular attention to the locally ordered spatial regions that form in the Griffiths region. We derive an effective action where these rare regions are described in terms of static annealed disorder. A one-loop renormalization-group analysis of the effective action shows that for order-parameter dimensions p<4, the rare regions destroy the conventional critical behavior, and the renormalized disorder flows to infinity. For order-parameter dimensions p>4, the critical behavior is not influenced by the rare regions; it is described by the conventional dirty cubic fixed point. We also discuss the influence of the rare regions on the fluctuation-driven first-order transition in this system.
Recommended Citation
R. S. Narayanan and T. Vojta, "Effect of Rare Locally Ordered Regions on a Disordered Itinerant Quantum Antiferromagnet with Cubic Anisotropy," Physical Review B (Condensed Matter), vol. 63, no. 1, pp. 144051 - 144056, American Physical Society (APS), Dec 2001.
The definitive version is available at https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.63.014405
Department(s)
Physics
Keywords and Phrases
ferromagnetic material; anisotropy; chaotic dynamics; magnetism; phase transition; quantum theory; reaction analysis; structure activity relation
International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)
0163-1829
Document Type
Article - Journal
Document Version
Final Version
File Type
text
Language(s)
English
Rights
© 2001 American Physical Society (APS), All rights reserved.
Publication Date
01 Dec 2001
