Title
Multicritical behavior of the two-dimensional transverse Ising metamagnet in a longitudinal magnetic field
Date Issued
15 May 2017
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Universidad Federal de Amazonas
Publisher(s)
Elsevier B.V.
Abstract
Magnetic phenomena of the two-dimensional anisotropic antiferromagnetic Ising model in both uniform longitudinal (H) and uniform transverse (Ω) magnetic fields are studied by employing a mean-field variational approach based on Bogoliubov inequality for the free energy. The phase diagrams in the magnetic fields and temperature (T) planes, namely H−T and Ω−T, are analyzed on an anisotropic square lattice for some values of the ratio α=Jy/Jx, where Jx and Jy are, respectively, the exchange interactions along the x and y directions. Depending on the range of the Hamiltonian parameters, one has only second-order transition lines, only first-order transition lines, or both first- and second-order transition lines with the presence of tricritical points. In addition, the corresponding phase diagrams are free from any reentrant behavior.
Start page
224
End page
229
Volume
474
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Física de partículas, Campos de la Física
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85012241927
Source
Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications
ISSN of the container
03784371
Sponsor(s)
This work was partially supported by FAPEAM Grant No. PPP 012/2009 and CNPq Grant No. 402091/2012-4 (Brazilian Research Agencies).
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