Multicritical Points and Crossover Mediating the Strong Violation of Universality: Wang-Landau Determinations in the Random-Bond $d=2$ Blume-Capel model

TL;DR

This study investigates how bond randomness influences the phase transitions and critical behavior of the 2D Blume-Capel model, revealing complex phenomena and potential universality violations through Wang-Landau simulations.

Contribution

It provides detailed phase diagrams and critical property comparisons for pure and disordered models, highlighting the emergence of ferromagnetic order enhancement and complex behavior under strong disorder.

Findings

Disorder affects the phase diagram and critical behavior.

Weak disorder may follow a double logarithmic specific heat scenario.

Strong disorder exhibits complex, not fully understood behavior.

Abstract

The effects of bond randomness on the phase diagram and critical behavior of the square lattice ferromagnetic Blume-Capel model are discussed. The system is studied in both the pure and disordered versions by the same efficient two-stage Wang-Landau method for many values of the crystal field, restricted here in the second-order phase transition regime of the pure model. For the random-bond version several disorder strengths are considered. We present phase diagram points of both pure and random versions and for a particular disorder strength we locate the emergence of the enhancement of ferromagnetic order observed in an earlier study in the ex-first-order regime. The critical properties of the pure model are contrasted and compared to those of the random model. Accepting, for the weak random version, the assumption of the double logarithmic scenario for the specific heat we attempt to estimate the range of universality between the pure and random-bond models. The behavior of the strong disorder regime is also discussed and a rather complex and yet not fully understood behavior is observed. It is pointed out that this complexity is related to the ground-state structure of the random-bond version.