Critical and tricritical singularities of the three-dimensional random-bond Potts model for large $q$

Abstract

We study the effect of varying strength, $\delta$, of bond randomness on the phase transition of the three-dimensional Potts model for large $q$. The cooperative behavior of the system is determined by large correlated domains in which the spins points into the same direction. These domains have a finite extent in the disordered phase. In the ordered phase there is a percolating cluster of correlated spins. For a sufficiently large disorder $\delta >{\delta }_t$ this percolating cluster coexists with a percolating cluster of non-correlated spins. Such a co-existence is only possible in more than two dimensions. We argue and check numerically that ${\delta }_t$ is the tricritical disorder, which separates the first- and second-order transition regimes. The tricritical exponents are estimated as ${\beta }_t/{\nu }_t=0.10(2)$ and ${\nu }_t=0.67(4)$. We claim these exponents are $q$ independent, for sufficiently large $q$. In the second-order transition regime the critical exponents ${\beta }_t/{\nu }_t=0.60(2)$ and ${\nu }_t=0.73(1)$ are independent of the strength of disorder.

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