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Antiferromagnetic triangular Blume-Capel model with hard core exclusions

Statistical Mechanics 2014-10-03 v1

Abstract

Using Monte Carlo simulation we analyze phase transitions of two antiferromagnetic (AFM) triangular Blume-Capel (BC) models with AFM interactions between third nearest neighbors. One model has hard core exclusions between the nearest neighbor (1NN) particles (3NN1 model) and the other - between 1NN and next-nearest-neighbor particles (3NN12 model). Finite-size scaling analysis reveals that in these models, as in the 1NN AFM BC model, the transition from paramagnetic to long-range order (LRO) AFM phase is either of the first-order or goes through intermediate phase which might be attributed to Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) type. We show that properties of the low-temperature phase transition to the AFM phase of 1NN, 3NN1 and 3NN12 models are very similar in all interval of a normalized single-ion anisotropy parameter, δ\delta, except where the first order phase transitions occur. Due to different entropy of the 3NN12 and 3NN1 models, their higher temperature behavior is different from that of the 1NN model. Three phase transitions are observed for 3NN12 model: (i) from paramagnetic phase to the phase with domains of the LRO AFM phase at TcT_c ; (ii) from this structure to diluted frustrated BKT-type phase at T2T_2 (high-temperature limit of the critical line of the BKT-type phase transitions) and (iii) from this frustrated phase to the AFM LRO phase at T1T_1 (low-temperature limit of this line). For the 3NN12 model Tc>T2>T1T_c>T_2>T_1 at 0<δ<1.150<\delta<1.15 (range I), Tc=T2>T1T_c=T_2>T_1 at 1.15<δ<1.31.15<\delta<1.3 (range II) and Tc=T2=T1T_c=T_2=T_1 at 1.3<δ<1.51.3<\delta<1.5 (range III). For 3NN1 model Tc=T2>T1T_c=T_2>T_1 at 0<δ<1.20<\delta<1.2 (range II) and Tc=T2=T1T_c=T_2=T_1 at 1.2<δ<1.51.2<\delta<1.5 (range III). In range III there is only first order phase transition. In range II the transition at Tc=T2T_c=T_2 is of the first order, too. In range I the transition at TcT_c is either weak first-order or second-order phase transition.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1403.1492,
  title  = {Antiferromagnetic triangular Blume-Capel model with hard core exclusions},
  author = {Andrius Ibenskas and Mantas Šimėnas and Evaldas E. Tornau},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1403.1492},
  year   = {2014}
}

Comments

12 pages, 15 figures, submitted for publication

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