Chiral ordering in Heisenberg spin glasses in two and three dimensions

Hikaru Kawamura
Phys. Rev. Lett. 68, 3785 – Published 22 June 1992
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Abstract

The nearest-neighbor Heisenberg spin glass in two and three dimensions is studied by means of a T=0 domain-wall renormalization-group method with a focus on the chiral ordering. In d=2 dimensions, both the spin and chiral components order at zero temperature with different correlation-length exponents, while d=3 appears to be just above the lower critical dimension of the chiral component dl(c), though the possibility that dl(c)=3 cannot be ruled out. A chirality driven mechanism is proposed as a new possible mechanism of experimentally observed spin-glass transitions.

  • Received 10 March 1992

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.68.3785

©1992 American Physical Society

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Hikaru Kawamura

  • Department of Physics, College of General Education, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka 560, Japan

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Vol. 68, Iss. 25 — 22 June 1992

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