We report on numerical simulations of the two-dimensional Blume-Capel ferromagnet embedded in the triangular lattice. The model is studied in both its first- and second-order phase transition regime for several values of the crystal field via a sophisticated two-stage numerical strategy using the Wang-Landau algorithm. Using classical finite-size scaling techniques we estimate with high accuracy phase-transition temperatures, thermal, and magnetic critical exponents and we give an approximation of the phase diagram of the model.
@article{arxiv.1011.4780,
title = {Wang-Landau study of the triangular Blume-Capel ferromagnet},
author = {N. G. Fytas},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1011.4780},
year = {2011}
}
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8 pages, 14 figures, to be published in Eur. Phys. J. B