Multiplicity of ordered phases in frustrated systems obtained from hard-spin mean-field theory
Random quenched dilution of the triangular-lattice antiferromagnetic Ising model locally relieves frustration, leading to ordering phenomena. We have studied this system, under such dilution of one sublattice, using hard-spin mean-field theory. After a threshold dilution, two sublattices develop nonzero magnetizations of equal magnitude and opposite signs, as all three sublattices exhibit spin-glass order. In this phase, multiple sets of ordered solutions occur. A phase diagram is obtained in dilution fraction and temperature.
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Feza Gursey Research Institute for Basic Sciences, 81220 Cengelkoy, Istanbul, Turkey and Department of Physics, Istanbul Technical University, 80626 Maslak, Istanbul, Turkey.
Nihat Berker A