Uniform uniaxial anisotropic systems with coupled vector order parameters |
| |
Authors: | D Nicolaides |
| |
Institution: | 1. Natural Sciences and Mathematics , Bloomfield College , 467 Franklin Street, Bloomfield, NJ 07003, USA Demetris_Nicolaides@bloomfield.edu |
| |
Abstract: | Phase transitions in magnets, described by two coupled, m-component vector order parameters, having uniform uniaxial anisotropies are studied. Using a phenomenological model, it is shown that when both order parameters are anisotropic, phase transitions are always second order, in either the uniaxial or the (m???1)-isotropic phase. This is contrary to the isotropic case of two coupled order parameters, for which phase transitions are fluctuation-induced first order. The transitions are still continuous into the m-isotropic phase even when the only anisotropic order parameter is the one with the lowest mean-field critical temperature. New discontinuous transitions still occur in either the uniaxial or the (m???1)-isotropic phase, when the only anisotropic order parameter has the highest mean-field critical temperature. |
| |
Keywords: | Uniform Uniaxial Anisotropy Coupled Phase Transition |
|
|