Generalized spin-glass relaxation

Phys Rev Lett. 2009 Mar 6;102(9):097202. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.097202. Epub 2009 Mar 4.

Abstract

Spin relaxation close to the glass temperature of CuMn and AuFe spin glasses is shown, by neutron spin echo, to follow a generalized exponential function which explicitly introduces hierarchically constrained dynamics and macroscopic interactions. The interaction parameter is directly related to the normalized Tsallis nonextensive entropy parameter q and exhibits universal scaling with reduced temperature. At the glass temperature q=5/3 corresponding, within Tsallis' q statistics, to a mathematically defined critical value for the onset of strong disorder and nonlinear dynamics.