How thin a spin glass is still a spin glass?
- 4 March 1991
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 66 (9) , 1224-1227
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.66.1224
Abstract
The quasistatic spin-freezing temperature of thin layers of CuMn and AgMn remains nonzero down to thicknesses of 1 and 2 monolayers, respectively. These alloys thus remain spin glasses at such layer thicknesses, in agreement with published evidence of similar behavior for a two-dimensional, short-range, insulating spin glass. For ≤5 monolayers, we find ∝ as predicted by Fisher and Huse, with an exponent a=0.8±0.1.
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