Phase diagram of dipolar-coupled XY moments on disordered square lattices

Abstract

The effects of dilution disorder and random-displacement disorder are analyzed for dipolar-coupled magnetic moments confined in a plane, which were originally placed on the square lattice. In order to distinguish the different phases, new order parameters are derived and parallel tempering Monte Carlo simulations are performed for a truncated dipolar Hamiltonian to obtain the phase diagrams for both types of disorder. We find that both dilution disorder and random-displacement disorder give similar phase diagrams, namely disorder at small enough temperatures favors a so-called microvortex phase. This can be understood in terms of the flux closure present in dipolar-coupled systems.

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