The dipolar spin glass transition in three dimensions

Abstract

Dilute dipolar Ising magnets remain a notoriously hard problem to tackle both analytically and numerically because of long-ranged interactions between spins as well as rare region effects. We study a new type of anisotropic dilute dipolar Ising system in three dimensions [Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 114}, 247207 (2015)] that arises as an effective description of randomly diluted classical spin ice, a prototypical spin liquid in the disorder-free limit, with a small fraction $x$ of non-magnetic impurities. Metropolis algorithm within a parallel thermal tempering scheme fails to achieve equilibration for this problem already for small system sizes. Motivated by previous work [Phys. Rev. X {\bf 4}, 041016 (2014)] on uniaxial random dipoles, we present an improved cluster Monte Carlo algorithm that is tailor-made for removing the equilibration bottlenecks created by clusters of {\it effectively frozen} spins. By performing large-scale simulations down to $x=1/128$ and using finite size scaling, we show the existence of a finite-temperature spin glass transition and give strong evidence that the universality of the critical point is independent of $x$ when it is small. In this $x\ll 1$ limit, we also provide a first estimate of both the thermal exponent, $\nu =1.27(8)$, and the anomalous exponent, $\eta =0.228(35)$.

arXiv comment12 pages, 7 figures

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