The van Hemmen model in the presence of a random field

The van Hemmen model with a random field is studied to analyze the tricritical behavior in the Ising spin glass phase. The free energy and phase diagram (T versus H and T versus Jo/J, where H is the root mean square deviation of the magnetic field, Jo and J are the ferromagnetic and root mean square deviation exchange, respectively) are calculated for the model with discrete (or bimodal) and Gaussian distributions. For the case of the bimodal probability distribution (random field and exchange), we have the presence of three ordered phases, namely: spin glass (SG), mixed (pi) and ferromagnetic...