POSITION SPACE TREATMENT OF DILUTED CLASSICAL HEISENBERG-FERROMAGNET

The bond-diluted classical Heisenberg ferromagnet is treated by a position space renormalisation group method valid when the valid behaviour is at low temperatures. The method is outlined and used to obtain exact (one-dimensional) and approximate (two- and three-dimensional) results for the critical behaviour of the correlation length near the percolation limit. The procedure agrees in the pure limit with exact results of Polyakov and Migdal for the two-dimensional case. At general concentrations an exact correspondence with related treatments of random resistor networks is exhibited. This implies that the percolation-to-thermal crossover exponents of the Ising and Heisenberg systems are the same. The generalisations required for a proper comparison with neutron scattering experiments are briefly discussed.