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Surface Incommensurate Structure in an Anisotropic Model with competing interactions on Semiinfinite Triangular Lattice

Statistical Mechanics 2009-10-28 v1

Abstract

An anisotropic spin model on a triangular semiinfinite lattice with ferromagnetic nearest-neighbour interactions and one antiferromagnetic next-nearest-neighbour interaction is investigated by the cluster transfer-matrix method. A phase diagram with <2> antiphase, ferromagnetic, incommensurate, and disordered phase is obtained. The bulk uniaxial incommensurate structure modulated in the direction of the competing interactions is found between the <2> antiphase and the disordered phase. The incommensurate structure near the surface with free and <2> boundary condition is studied at different temperatures. Paramagnetic damping at the surface and enhancement of the incommensurate structure in the subsurface region at high temperatures and a new subsurface incommensurate structure modulated in two directions at low temperatures are found.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9611193,
  title  = {Surface Incommensurate Structure in an Anisotropic Model with competing interactions on Semiinfinite Triangular Lattice},
  author = {P. Pajersky and A. Surda},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9611193},
  year   = {2009}
}

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13 pages, plainTex, 11 figures, paper submitted to J. Phys. A

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