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Monte Carlo Study of Doping Change and Disorder Effect on Double Exchange Ferromagnetism Yukitoshi Motome RIKEN (The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research), 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan 3 Nobuo Furukawa 0 Department of Physics, Aoyama Gakuin University, 0 5-10-1 Fuchinobe, Sagamihara, Kanagawa 229-8558, Japan 2 (Dated: February 2, 2008) y a Phase diagram and critical properties are studied for three-dimensional double exchange model with and without quenched disorder. Employing the Monte Carlo method and the systematic analy- M sis on the finite-size effect, we estimate the Curie temperature and the critical exponent as functions 2 of the doping concentration and the strength of the random potential. The Curie temperature well scales to the kinetic energy of electrons in the ground state as expected for this kinetics-driven ferro- ] magnetism. The universality class of this transition is described by the short-range Heisenberg fixed l point. The results are compared with the experimental results in the colossal magnetoresistance e - manganites. r t s PACS numbers: 75.40.Cx, 75.47.Lx, 71.10.-w . t a m I. INTRODUCTION amined by comparing the MC results with the mean- -