Abstract
The scaling laws relating the critical exponents characterizing the ferromagnetic phase transition are shown to be modified in the presence of quenched random magnetic fields. The hyperscaling relation , for example, becomes , where the index is negative and is related to the range of the ferromagnetic exchange interactions. This breakdown of hyperscaling results from a singular dependence of the thermodynamic functions on the scaling field associated with an irrelevant operator.
- Received 6 May 1976
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.37.944
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