Title
Phase diagrams of a spin-1 Ising system with competing short- and long-range interactions
Date Issued
15 September 2015
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
De Sousa J.R.
Neto M.A.
Universidade Federal Do Amazonas
Publisher(s)
American Physical Society
Abstract
We have studied the phase diagrams of the one-dimensional spin-1 Blume-Capel model with anisotropy constant D, in which equivalent-neighbor ferromagnetic interactions of strength -J are superimposed on nearest-neighbor antiferromagnetic interactions of strength K. A rich critical behavior is found due to the competing interactions. At zero temperature two ordered phases exist in the D/J-K/J plane, namely the ferromagnetic (F) and the antiferromagnetic one (AF). For lower values of D/J(D/J<0.25) these two ordered phases are separated by the point Kc=0.25J. For 0.25<D/J≤0.50, the paramagnetic phase P emerges in a region separated between the lines determined by D/J=0.5-K/J and D/J=K/J. For D/J>0.5, only phases AF and F exist and are separated by a line given by D/J=K/J. At finite temperatures, we found that the ferromagnetic region of the phase diagram in the kBT/J-D/J plane is enriched by another ferromagnetic phase F′ above a first-order line for 0.195<K/J<0.250. This first-order line, which separates phases F and F′, begins at a coexistence point, where phases F,F′, and P coexist, and ends at an ordered critical point. Similarly, we found that the phase F′ is present in the phase diagram in the kBT/J-K/J plane for 0.228<D/J<0.286.
Volume
92
Issue
3
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Física de la materia condensada
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84942319067
Source
Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics
ISSN of the container
15393755
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