FIZIKA A 8 (1999) 4 , 369-382

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SECOND-ORDER PHASE TRANSITION INDUCED BY THE QUENCHED RANDOM DILUTION IN 3D

KATARINA UZELAC, ANTE ANIČIĆ and OSOR S. BARIŠIĆ

Institute of Physics, POB 304, Bijenička 46, HR-10000 Zagreb, Croatia

Dedicated to Professor Boran Leontić on the occasion of his 70th birthday

Received 14 February 2000; revised manuscript received 26 March 1998
Accepted 3 April 2000

The effect of the quenched random dilution on the ferromagnetic transitions, in particular, the conversion from the first- to second-order transition is discussed. The new results are presented for the diluted three-dimensional three-state Potts model. The critical exponents of the disorder-induced second-order phase transition are derived by the finite-size scaling analysis of the moments of the energy and the largest cluster, obtained from the Monte Carlo simulations.

PACS numbers: 05.50.+q, 64.60.Cn
UDC 536.764
Keywords: ferromagnetic transitions, phase transitions, diluted three-dimensional three-state Potts model, critical exponents, Monte Carlo simulations
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