Parisi, GiorgioPicco, MarcoRitort Farran, Fèlix2011-07-072011-07-0719991063-651Xhttps://hdl.handle.net/2445/18821We investigate the phase transition in a strongly disordered short-range three-spin interaction model characterized by the absence of time-reversal symmetry in the Hamiltonian. In the mean-field limit the model is well described by the Adam-Gibbs-DiMarzio scenario for the glass transition; however, in the short-range case this picture turns out to be modified. The model presents a finite temperature continuous phase transition characterized by a divergent spin-glass susceptibility and a negative specific-heat exponent. We expect the nature of the transition in this three-spin model to be the same as the transition in the Edwards-Anderson model in a magnetic field, with the advantage that the strong crossover effects present in the latter case are absent.11 p.application/pdfeng(c) American Physical Society, 1999Física estadísticaTermodinàmicaSistemes no linealsPropietats magnètiquesEquacions d'estatRegla de les fases i equilibriTransformacions de fase (Física estadística)Statistical physicsThermodynamicsNonlinear systemsMagnetic propertiesEquations of statePhase rule and equilibriumPhase transformations (Statistical physics)info:eu-repo/semantics/article143492info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess