Phase Diagram and Ground State of a Decorated Ising Model on a Cubic Lattice

Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics - The static critical behavior of a three-dimensional decorated Ising model on a cubic lattice is investigated by the methods of computational...     

Phase Diagram of the Antiferromagnetic Heisenberg Model on a Cubic Lattice

Phase transitions in the antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model on a cubic lattice with intralayer next-nearest neighbor interactions are studied using the replica Monte Carlo algorithm. The magnitude of next-nearest neighbor interactions varies in the range of 0.0 ≤ r ≤ 1.0. The characteristics of the phase transitions are analyzed by the histogram and Binder cumulant techniques. The phase diagram relating the transition temperature and the magnitude of next-nearest neighbor interactions is constructed. It is shown that a second order phase transition occurs in the r range under study. In this model, it is found that the intralayer next-nearest neighbor interactions do not change the order of the phase transition.

     

Effect of Magnetic Field on the Thermodynamic and Magnetic Properties of the Antiferromagnetic Ising Model on a Body-Centered Cubic Lattice

Physics of the Solid State - The effect of an external magnetic field on the phase transitions and the thermodynamic and magnetic properties of the three-dimensional antiferromagnetic Ising model...     

Phase Transitions in the Antiferromagnetic Heisenberg Model on a Body-Centered Cubic Lattice with Allowance for the Next-Nearest-Neighbor Interactions

Based on the replica exchange Monte Carlo algorithm and histogram analysis of data, the phase transitions in the three-dimensional antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model on a body-centered cubic lattice with allowance for the next-nearest-neighbor interaction are studied. The study is performed for the nextnearest- neighbor exchange interaction ratio of r = 1. It is established that, for this model, the transition from the antiferromagnetic to paramagnetic phase is a first-order phase transition.     

Phase Transitions and Critical Properties of the Heisenberg Antiferromagnetic Model on a Body-Centered Cubic Lattice with Second Nearest Neighbor Interaction

Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics - Phase transitions and critical properties of the antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model on a body-centered cubic lattice are investigated by the Monte...     

Phase Transitions and the Critical Properties of the Heisenberg Model on a Body-Centered Cubic Lattice

Physics of the Solid State - The Monte Carlo replica technique is used to study phase transitions and the thermodynamic and critical properties of the three-dimensional Heisenberg antiferromagnetic...     

Studying Thermodynamic Properties of the Ising Model on a Body-Centered Cubic Lattice with Competing Exchange Interactions

Physics of the Solid State - Using the Monte Carlo method, magnetic structures of the ground state and thermodynamic properties of the antiferromagnetic Ising model on a body-centered cubic lattice...     

Lattice Green's Function for the Body-Centered Cubic Lattice

An expression for the Green's function (GF) of Body-Centered Cubic (BCC) lattice is evaluated analytically and numerically for a single impurity lattice. The density of states (DOS), phase shift, and scattering cross section are expressed in terms of complete elliptic integrals of the first kind.     

Phase Diagram of XY Model with Nematic Coupling on the Simple Cubic Lattice

Using cluster Monte Carlo method,we numerically investigate the criticality in the XY model with nematic coupling on the simple cubic lattice.We determine critical lines belong to the three-dimensional XY universality class in variable of θ(2θ) between the XY-ferromagnetic(nematic) and disordered states.Furthermore,the phase transition between the XY-ferromagnetic and the nematic states is found to be in the three-dimensional Ising universality class.The critical points are determined from the intersections of Binder ratios for various system sizes.With two sets of critical points obtained,we finally construct the phase diagram on the-J plane.     

Ground State of an Antiferromagnetic Three-State Potts Model on a Triangular Lattice with Competing Interactions

The ground state of the spin structures described by an antiferromagnetic three-state Potts model on a triangular lattice is studied with allowance for the next-nearest neighbors. The numerical data obtained by the Monte Carlo method are used to reveal the ranges of ordered and disordered phases in these structures.     

Density of States and the Ground State Structure in the Ising Model on a Kagome Lattice with Consideration for Next-Nearest-Neighbor Interaction

Physics of the Solid State - Phase transitions and thermodynamic properties have been studied in the two-dimensional antiferromagnetic Ising model on a Kagome lattice by the Monte Carlo method with...     

Thermodynamic Transitions of Antiferromagnetic Ising Model on the Fractional Multi-branched Husimi Recursive Lattice

The multi-branched Husimi recursive lattice is extended to a virtual structure with fractional numbers of branches joined on one site. Although the lattice is undrawable in real space, the concept is consistent with regular Husimi lattice. The Ising spins of antiferromagnetic interaction on such a set of lattices are calculated to check the critical temperatures (T_c) and ideal glass transition temperatures (T_k) variation with fractional branch numbers. Besides the similar results of two solutions representing the stable state (crystal) and metastable state (supercooled liquid) and indicating the phase transition temperatures, the phase transitions show a well-defined shift with branch number variation. Therefore the fractional branch number as a parameter can be used as an adjusting tool in constructing a recursive lattice model to describe real systems.     

Thermodynamic Comparison and the Ideal Glass Transition of Antiferromagnetic Ising Model on Multi-branched Husimi and Cubic Recursive Lattice with the Identical Coordination Number

Two types of recursive lattices with the identical coordination number but different unit cells (2-D square and 3-D cube) are constructed and the antiferromagnetic Ising model is solved exactly on them to study the stable and metastable states. A multi-branched structure of the 2-D plaquette model, which we introduced in this work, makes it possible to be an analog to the cubic lattice. Two solutions of each model can be found to exhibit the crystallization of liquid, and the ideal glass transition of supercooled liquid respectively. Based on the solutions, the thermodynamics on both lattices, e.g. the free energy, energy density, and entropy of the supercooled liquid, crystal, and liquid state of the model are calculated and compared with each other. Interactions between particles farther away than the nearest neighbor distance and multi-spins interactions are taken into consideration, and their effects on the thermal behavior are examined. The two lattices show comparable properties on the thermodynamics, which proves that both of them are practical to describe the regular 3-D case, especially to locate the ideal glass transition, while the 2-D multi-branched plaquette model is less accurate with the advantage of simpler formulation and less computation time consumption.     

Thermodynamic Comparison and the Ideal Glass Transition of Antiferromagnetic Ising Model on Multi-branched Husimi and Cubic Recursive Lattice with the Identical Coordination Number

Two types of recursive lattices with the identical coordination number but different unit cells(2-D square and 3-D cube) are constructed and the antiferromagnetic Ising model is solved exactly on them to study the stable and metastable states. A multi-branched structure of the 2-D plaquette model, which we introduced in this work, makes it possible to be an analog to the cubic lattice. Two solutions of each model can be found to exhibit the crystallization of liquid, and the ideal glass transition of supercooled liquid respectively. Based on the solutions, the thermodynamics on both lattices, e.g. the free energy, energy density, and entropy of the supercooled liquid, crystal, and liquid state of the model are calculated and compared with each other. Interactions between particles farther away than the nearest neighbor distance and multi-spins interactions are taken into consideration, and their effects on the thermal behavior are examined. The two lattices show comparable properties on the thermodynamics, which proves that both of them are practical to describe the regular 3-D case, especially to locate the ideal glass transition, while the 2-D multi-branched plaquette model is less accurate with the advantage of simpler formulation and less computation time consumption.     

Phase Diagram for Ashkin-Teller Model on Bethe Lattice

Using the recursion method, we study the phase transitions of the Ashkin-Teller model on the Bethe lattice, restricting ourselves to the case of ferromagnetic interactions. The isotropic Ashkin-Teller model and the anisotropic one are respectively investigated, and exact expressions for the free energy and the magnetization are obtained. It can be found that each of the three varieties of phase diagrams, for the anisotropic Ashkin-Teller model, consists of four phases, i.e., the fully disordered paramagnetic phase Para, the fully ordered ferromagnetic phase Ferro, and two partially ordered ferromagnetic phases 〈σ〉and 〈σs〉, while the phase diagram, for the isotropic Ashkin-Teller model, contains three phases, i.e., the fully disordered paramagnetic phase Para, the fully ordered ferromagnetic phase Baxter Phase, and the partially ordered ferromagnetic phase 〈σs〉.     

Non-degenerated Ground States and Low-degenerated Excited States in the Antiferromagnetic Ising Model on Triangulations

We study the unexpected asymptotic behavior of the degeneracy of the first few energy levels in the antiferromagnetic Ising model on triangulations of closed Riemann surfaces. There are strong mathematical and physical reasons to expect that the number of ground states (i.e., degeneracy) of the antiferromagnetic Ising model on the triangulations of a fixed closed Riemann surface is exponential in the number of vertices. In the set of plane triangulations, the degeneracy equals the number of perfect matchings of the geometric duals, and thus it is exponential by a recent result of Chudnovsky and Seymour. From the physics point of view, antiferromagnetic triangulations are geometrically frustrated systems, and in such systems exponential degeneracy is predicted. We present results that contradict these predictions. We prove that for each closed Riemann surface S of positive genus, there are sequences of triangulations of S with exactly one ground state. One possible explanation of this phenomenon is that exponential degeneracy would be found in the excited states with energy close to the ground state energy. However, as our second result, we show the existence of a sequence of triangulations ${(\mathcal{T}_n)}$ of a closed Riemann surface of genus 10 with exactly one ground state such that the degeneracy of each of the 1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd and 4^th excited energy levels belongs to O(n), O(n ²), O(n ³) and O(n ⁴), respectively.     

Phase Diagram of a Two-Species Lattice Model with a Linear Instability

We discuss the properties of a one-dimensional lattice model of a driven system with two species of particles in which the mobility of one species depends on the density of the other. This model was introduced by Lahiri and Ramaswamy ( Phys . Rev. Lett ., 79 , 1150 (1997)) in the context of sedimenting colloidal crystals, and its continuum version was shown to exhibit an instability arising from linear gradient couplings. In this paper we review recent progress in understanding the full phase diagram of the model. There are three phases. In the first, the steady state can be determined exactly along a representative locus using the condition of detailed balance. The system shows phase separation of an exceptionally robust sort, termed strong phase separation, which survives at all temperatures. The second phase arises in the threshold case where the first species evolves independently of the second, but the fluctuations of the first influence the evolution of the second, as in the passive scalar problem. The second species then shows phase separation of a delicate sort, in which long-range order coexists with fluctuations which do not damp down in the large-size limit. This fluctuation-dominated phase ordering is associated with power law decays in cluster size distributions and a breakdown of the Porod law. The third phase is one with a uniform overall density, and along a representative locus the steady state is shown to have product measure form. Density fluctuations are transported by two kinematic waves, each involving both species and coupled at the nonlinear level. Their dissipation properties are governed by the symmetries of these couplings, which depend on the overall densities. In the most interesting case, the dissipation of the two modes is characterized by different critical exponents, despite the nonlinear coupling.     

Phase Diagram of Random Field Spin-S Ising Model with a Transverse Field

Random field spin-S Ising model with a transverse field has been studied by making use of the pair approximation with the discretized path-integral representation, and an analytical expression of second-order phase transition is derived for all the symmetric probability distributions of (longitudinal) random fields. The phase diagrams at T = 0 are obtained, and the conditions for existence of tricritical points are examined for an arbitrary number of nearest-neighbor spins.     

Magnetic Phase Transitions in Quantum Ising Model with Annealed Antiferromagnetic Bond Randomness

The effect of annealed antiferromagnetic bond randomness on the phase transitions of the Quantum Ising Model (QIM) is studied by using mean-field renormalization group method. It is argued that bond randomness drastically alters multicritical phase diagram via transverse field. Multicritical points and coexistence region of ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic case exist only at weak transverse field,.and are entirely eliminated at strong transverse field. The coexistence region diminishes in reducing the fluctuation interaction. This physical picture demonstrates that the competition between transverse field and exchange interaction and fluctuation interaction via bond randomness play an important role in generating multiphase structure. Another consequence of competition is that tricritical points of first-second order phase transitions are not entirely eliminated by bond randomness in two-dimensional QIM.