Kirkpatrick T R, Belitz D
Institute for Physical Science and Technology, and Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA.
Department of Physics and Institute of Theoretical Science, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon 97403, USA and Materials Science Institute, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon 97403, USA.
Phys Rev Lett. 2014 Sep 19;113(12):127203. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.127203. Epub 2014 Sep 18.
We determine the preasymptotic critical behavior at the quantum ferromagnetic transition in strongly disordered metals. We find that it is given by effective power laws, in contrast to the previously analyzed asymptotic critical behavior, which is valid only in an unobservably small region. The consequences for analyzing experiments are discussed, in particular, ways to distinguish between critical behavior and Griffiths-phase effects.