N. Schreiber

Ensemble-dependent effect of disorder on multicritical points in a system with long-range interactions

We introduce two variants of the Blume--Emery--Griffiths model with long-range, mean-field-like interactions and quenched disorder. Although the two variants are described by different Hamiltonians, they yield the same free energy. Moreover, both Hamiltonians lead to the same average energy and hence to the same microc...