Phase transition in the XY gauge glass

Numerical studies on critical properties of the Kosterlitz-Thouless phase for the gauge glass model in two dimensions

The critical exponents are estimated for the gauge glass model in two dimensions, in which only the Kosterlitz-Thouless (KT) phase appears in the low-temperature regime. The nonequilibrium relaxation method is applied to estimate the transition temperature and critical exponents: the static exponent η and the dynamical exponent z. Since the system exhibits criticality in the whole KT phase, we estimate the exponents on the boundary as well as inside the KT phase. The static exponent η depends on both the temperature and the strength of randomness, while the dynamical one z is almost constant throughout the KT phase, including the boundary.

Effects of discreteness on gauge glass models in two and three dimensions

The q-state clock gauge glass model is studied to see the effect of discreteness on the Kosterlitz-Thouless (KT) transition and the ferromagnetic (FM) critical phenomenon in random systems. The nonequilibrium relaxation analysis is applied. In two dimensions, the successive transitions of paramagnetic (PM), KT, and FM phases are investigated along the Nishimori line for q=6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, and 1024 (recognized as infinity) cases. For the upper critical temperature, it is found that the transition temperature is almost the same as in the continuous case for all q values. The lower transition temperature is found to be proportional to 1/q2. In three dimensions, the critical behavior of the PM-FM transition is studied along the Nishimori line for q=6, 8, 16, and 1024 cases. It is found that the spin discreteness is irrelevant, and the transition belongs to the same universality class as in the (continuous) XY case.