Numerical Evidence of Spin-Chirality Decoupling in the Three-Dimensional Heisenberg Spin Glass Model

Dao Xuan Viet, Hikaru Kawamura

Physical Review Letters · 2009 · 54 citations · 13 references

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Ordering of the three-dimensional Heisenberg spin glass with Gaussian coupling is studied by extensive Monte Carlo simulations. The model undergoes successive chiral-glass and spin-glass transitions at nonzero temperatures T_{CG}>T_{SG}>0, exhibiting spin-chirality decoupling.

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