title: Continuous phase transition in a spin-glass model without time-reversal symmetry.
abstract: We investigate the phase transition in a strongly disordered short-range three-spin interaction model characterized by the absence of time-reversal symmetry in the Hamiltonian. In the mean-field limit the model is well described by the Adam-Gibbs-DiMarzio scenario for the glass transition; however, in the short-range case this picture turns out to be modified. The model presents a finite temperature continuous phase transition characterized by a divergent spin-glass susceptibility and a negative specific-heat exponent. We expect the nature of the transition in this three-spin model to be the same as the transition in the Edwards-Anderson model in a magnetic field, with the advantage that the strong crossover effects present in the latter case are absent.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Fisica and INFN, Universita di Roma La Sapienza, Piazzale Aldo Moro 2, 00185 Roma, Italy. giorgio.paresi@roma1.infn.it
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Parisi
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Picco
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Ritort