Spin-Glass-Ferromagnetic Multicritical Point in Amorphous Fe-Mn Alloys

Abstract
The ac susceptibility of a sequence of amorphous Fe-Mn alloys shows lines of both spin-glass and ferromagnetic transitions. A detailed scaling-law analysis, treating the common point on the two magnetic phase boundaries as a multicritical point, verifies the scaling hypothesis and yields multicritical, spin-glass, and crossover exponents. The observed behavior compares quite will with position-space renormalization results.