Infinite-range Ising spin glass with a transverse field under the static approximation

Abstract

In this paper we investigate for the infinite-range Ising spin-glass model [i.e., the Sherrington-Kirkpatrick (SK) model] with a transverse field under the static approximation by using the imaginary-time replica formalism. From the investigations we show three important results: First, we show that a replica-symmetric quantum spin-glass phase is stable in most of the area of the spin-glass phase in the temperature-transverse field phase diagram. This confirms the existence of a stable replica-symmetric spin glass phase under the static approximation, which is contrary to some previous results derived without the static approximation where the replica-symmetric solution is always unstable in the whole spin-glass phase. Second, we show our theoretical result for the nonlinear susceptibility chi(nl) which conforms to the experimental result of nonlinear susceptibility measurement by Wu [Phys. Rev. Lett. 71, 1919 (1993)] in a quantum spin glass LiHoxY1-xF4. Third, in a classical (SK) spin-glass system, we confirm the anomaly in the second temperature derivative of C-H/T near the glass transition temperature T-g, associated possibly with the field-dependent variation of entropy in the spin glass transition, which agrees with the previous experimental observation in a classical spin glass system CuMn by Fogle [Phys. Rev. Lett. 50, 1815 (1983)]. We also show that this anomaly is suppressed by the nonzero transverse field of the quantum spin glass system, by which we can check for the quantum tunneling competing against spin freezing.