Disordered magnetic phases and magnetic transitions in non anisotropic frustrated systems

Abstract

Numerous studies have been devoted to disordered magnetic phases which show the existence of several types of disorder in non-anisotropic systems. Semi-disordered systems which retain at least partially long-range order (reentrant properties and randomly canted structures) and fully disordered systems (spin cluster and soft transition systems, true spin glass state) are shortly reviewed. Several characteristic experiments and results are presented and commented on, such as alternative, nonlinear and static susceptibilities, thermoremanence, ageing effects, neutron diffraction and Mössbauer spectroscopy. The possible types of disordered magnetic phases are discussed as a function of a sharp (or soft) transition and of a more or less fast dynamics. In true spin glasses, some problems are still open while in the other disordered phases the unresolved questions are numerous.