Critical behavior of the random-bond Ashkin-Teller model: A Monte Carlo study

Shai Wiseman and Eytan Domany
Phys. Rev. E 51, 3074 – Published 1 April 1995
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Abstract

The critical behavior of a bond-disordered Ashkin-Teller model on a square lattice is investigated by intensive Monte Carlo simulations. A duality transformation is used to locate a critical plane of the disordered model. This critical plane corresponds to the line of critical points of the pure model, along which critical exponents vary continuously. Along this line the scaling exponent corresponding to randomness φ=(α/ν) varies continuously and is positive so that the randomness is relevant, and different critical behavior is expected for the disordered model. We use a cluster algorithm for the Monte Carlo simulations based on the Wolff embedding idea, and perform a finite size scaling study of several critical models, extrapolating between the critical bond-disordered Ising and bond-disordered four-state Potts models. The critical behavior of the disordered model is compared with the critical behavior of an anisotropic Ashkin-Teller model, which is used as a reference pure model. We find no essential change in the order parameters’ critical exponents with respect to those of the pure model. The divergence of the specific heat C is changed dramatically. Our results favor a logarithmic type divergence at Tc, C∼lnL for the random-bond Ashkin-Teller and four-state Potts models and C∼ln lnL for the random-bond Ising model.

  • Received 19 October 1994

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.51.3074

©1995 American Physical Society

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Shai Wiseman and Eytan Domany

  • Department of Physics of Complex Systems, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100 Israel

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Vol. 51, Iss. 4 — April 1995

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