Critical adsorption on defects in ising magnets and binary alloys
Long-range correlations in a magnet close to its critical point or in a binary alloy close to a continuous order-disorder transition can substantially enhance the effect of local perturbations. It is demonstrated using a position-space renormalization procedure that quasi-one-dimensional defects which break the symmetry of the order parameter have pronounced effects: They cause long-range critical adsorption profiles and give rise to new universal critical exponents, which are identified and calculated using field-theoretical methods.
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Fachbereich Physik, Bergische Universitat Wuppertal, D-42097 Wuppertal, Germany.