English

Phase transitions in the Blume-Capel model with trimodal and Gaussian random fields

Statistical Mechanics 2022-10-13 v3 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks

Abstract

We study the effect of different symmetric random field distributions: trimodal and Gaussian on the phase diagram of the infinite range Blume-Capel model. For the trimodal random field, the model has a very rich phase diagram. We find three new ordered phases, multicritical points like tricritical point (TCP), bicritical end point (BEP), critical end point (CEP) along with some multi-phase coexistence points. We also find re-entrance at low temperatures for some values of the parameters. On the other hand for the Gaussian distribution the phase diagram consists of a continuous line of transition followed by a first order transition line, meeting at a TCP. The TCP vanishes for higher strength of the random field. In contrast to the trimodal case, in Gaussian case no new phase emerges.

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@article{arxiv.2203.05330,
  title  = {Phase transitions in the Blume-Capel model with trimodal and Gaussian random fields},
  author = {Soheli Mukherjee and Sumedha},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.05330},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

25 pages, 19 figures. Version accepted for publication in Journal of Statistical Physics