Stable mean-field solution of a short-range interacting SO(3) quantum Heisenberg spin glass

Phys Rev Lett. 2008 Jul 18;101(3):037201. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.037201. Epub 2008 Jul 14.

Abstract

We present a mean-field solution for a quantum, short-range interacting, disordered, SO(3) Heisenberg spin model, in which the Gaussian distribution of couplings is centered in an antiferromagnetic (AF) coupling J[over ]>0, and which, for weak disorder, can be treated as a perturbation of the pure AF Heisenberg system. The phase diagram contains, apart from a Néel phase at T=0, spin-glass and paramagnetic phases whose thermodynamic stability is demonstrated by an analysis of the Hessian matrix of the free-energy. The magnetic susceptibilities exhibit the typical cusp of a spin-glass transition.