{
  "id": "cond-mat/0103377",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2001-03-19T07:34:10.000Z",
  "updated": "2001-03-19T07:34:10.000Z",
  "title": "Evidence for softening of first-order transition in 3D by quenched disorder",
  "authors": [
    "Christophe Chatelain",
    "Bertrand Berche",
    "Wolfhard Janke",
    "Pierre Emmanuel Berche"
  ],
  "comment": "LaTeX file with Revtex, 4 pages, 4 eps figures",
  "journal": "Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Phys 64 (2001) 036120",
  "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevE.64.036120",
  "categories": [
    "cond-mat.stat-mech",
    "cond-mat.dis-nn"
  ],
  "abstract": "We study by extensive Monte Carlo simulations the effect of random bond dilution on the phase transition of the three-dimensional 4-state Potts model which is known to exhibit a strong first-order transition in the pure case. The phase diagram in the dilution-temperature plane is determined from the peaks of the susceptibility for sufficiently large system sizes. In the strongly disordered regime, numerical evidence for softening to a second-order transition induced by randomness is given. Here a large-scale finite-size scaling analysis, made difficult due to strong crossover effects presumably caused by the percolation fixed point, is performed.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2001-03-19T07:34:10.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "quenched disorder",
      "strong crossover effects",
      "random bond dilution",
      "sufficiently large system sizes",
      "strong first-order transition"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "publisher": "APS",
      "journal": "Phys. Rev. E"
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "RevTeX",
      "pages": 4,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable"
    }
  }
}