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We have carried out a comprehensive neutron scattering study of random field effects in the diluted three dimensional Ising antiferromagnet Fe x Zn1−x F2 withx=0.35 and 0.5. Emphasis is on the global trands from the small to the large random field regimes. It is found, as in previous experiments, that when the system is cooled in a field it evolves from the high temperature paramagnetic state to a low temperature domain wall state. The low temperature peaks are well-described by Lorentzian squared profiles although for thex=0.5 sample extinction made the measurements difficult. In both samples, the results show that in the field-cooled state the correlation length varies asH −v withv=2.2±0.1. In thex=0.35 sample this power law holds over a length scale varying from 2 to 1500 lattice constants. At low fields pretransitional behavior similar to that observed previously in Fe0.6Zn0.4F2 is found. AtT N (H=0) it is found that the correlation length also scales algebraically withH but withv=0.86±0.04. Pronounced history-dependent effects are observed below the phase boundary determined by the peak in the critical scattering. For example, on cooling in zero-field, raising the field and then warming, long range order survives up to the phase boundary; at this point it appears to convert abruptly into the finite correlation length field cooled state although elucidation of the explicit nature of this transition is complicated by rounding due to a concentration gradient. These results are discussed in the context of recent theories incorporating metastability effects as well as recent experiments.
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Cowley, R.A., Yoshizawa, H., Shirane, G. et al. Random field effects in the three dimensional Ising magnet: Fe x Zn1−x F2 . Z. Physik B - Condensed Matter 58, 15–30 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01469433
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