Phase diagram of the transverse Ising model in a random field

Abstract

We determine the phase diagram of the transverse Ising model with a trimodal distribution (sum of three \ensuremath{\delta} functions) for a longitudinal random field at T=0, using a mean-field approximation. The phase diagram includes tricritical points, ordered critical points, a fourth-order point, critical end points, and a double critical end point. Our T=0 phase diagram is completely equivalent to the one obtained by Kaufman, Klunzinger, and Khurana for the random-field Ising model. We show that the temperature and the magnitude of the transverse field play a similar role.