Chiral Ordering in the Four-Dimensional XY Spin Glass

Abstract

The chiral glass behaviour of the nearest-neighbour random-bond XY spin glass in four dimensions is studied by Monte Carlo simulations. A chiral glass transition at $T_{cg}=0.90\pm 0.05$ is found by a finite-size scaling analysis of the results. The associated chiral correlation-length exponent is estimated to be $ν_{cg}=0.6\pm 0.1$ and $η_{cg}\sim 0.25$. The values for the chiral critical temperature and the exponents are very similar to those reported recently for the spin glass transition in this model. The results strongly suggest a simultaneous ordering of spin and chirality in four dimensions.