Universality in the three-dimensional random-field ising model

Abstract

We solve a long-standing puzzle in statistical mechanics of disordered systems. By performing a high-statistics simulation of the D = 3 random-field Ising model at zero temperature for different shapes of the random-field distribution, we show that the model is ruled by a single universality class. We compute the complete set of critical exponents for this class, including the correction-to-scaling exponent, and we show, to high numerical accuracy, that scaling is described by two independent exponents. Discrepancies with previous works are explained in terms of strong scaling corrections.