The ac susceptibility of a sequence of amorphous Fe-Mn alloys shows lines of both spin-glass and ferromagnetic transitions. A detailed scaling-law analysis, treating the common point on the two magnetic phase boundaries as a multicritical point, verifies the scaling hypothesis and yields multicritical, spin-glass, and crossover exponents. The observed behavior compares quite will with position-space renormalization results.

• Received 18 October 1979

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.44.596