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Random-Field Blume-Capel Model: Mean-Field Theory
Physical Review B
  • Miron Kaufman, Cleveland State University
  • M. Kanner
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Article
Publication Date
8-1-1990
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Abstract

The global phase diagram of the Blume-Capel model in a random field obeying the bimodal symmetric distribution is determined by using the mean-field method. The phase diagram includes an isolated ordered critical end point and two lines of tricritical points. A new phase emerges for strong enough random fields: the ferromagnetic-nonmagnetic phase. It is argued that such a phase occurs in three dimensions.

DOI
10.1103/PhysRevB.42.2378
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Kaufman, Miron and M. Kanner. "Random-Field Blume-Capel Model: Mean-Field Theory." Physical Review B 42 (1990): 2378-2382.