Monte Carlo Study of Chiral-Glass Ordering in Three-Dimensional Heisenberg Spin Glass

Abstract

Chiral-glass ordering of the nearest-neighbor Heisenberg spi glass in three dimensions is studied through Monte Carlo simulations. Sharp growth of chiral correlations is observed at low temperatures. The data are consistent with the occurrence of a finite-temperature chiral-glass transition lying in the universality class of the three-dimensional Ising spin glass, while the possibility of a T=0 chiral-glass transition with an exponential (or nearly exponential) divergence cannot be ruled out.