A new method to evaluate the free energy for random magnetic systems
- 1 September 1977
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Journal of Physics F: Metal Physics
- Vol. 7 (9) , L267-L271
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0305-4608/7/9/006
Abstract
A new method to evaluate the free energy for a random magnetic system is presented. The method avoids the difficulties associated with the analytic continuation of (Zn)c to noninteger n, where Z is the partition function and ()c is an average over the random exchange potentials.Keywords
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