Emerging critical behavior at a first-order phase transition rounded by disorder
arXiv:1602.04508 · doi:10.1002/prop.201600018
Abstract
We investigate the two-dimensional four-color Ashkin-Teller model by means of large-scale Monte-Carlo simulations. We demonstrate that the first-order phase transition of the clean system is destroyed by random disorder introduced via site dilution. The critical behavior of the emerging continuous transition belongs to the clean two-dimensional Ising universality class, apart from logarithmic corrections. These results confirm perturbative renormalization-group predictions; they also agree with recent findings for the three-color case, indicating that the critical behavior is universal.
6 pages, 5 eps figures included, builds on arXiv:1504.00408, final version as published
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