Physics – Condensed Matter – Statistical Mechanics
Scientific paper
2010-01-26
Phys. Rev. B 82, 014404 (2010)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
19 pages, 17 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevB.82.014404
Nature of the phase transition of regularly frustrated vector spin systems in three dimensions is investigated based on a Ginzburg-Landau-type effective Hamiltonian. On the basis of the variational analysis of this model, Onoda et al recently suggested the possible occurrence of a chiral phase, where the vector chirality exhibits a long-range order without the long-range order of the spin [Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 027206 (2007)]. In the present paper, we elaborate their analysis by considering the possibility of a first-order transition which was not taken into account in their analysis. We find that the first-order transition indeed occurs within the variational approximation, which significantly reduces the stability range of the chiral phase, while the chiral phase still persists in a restricted parameter range. Then, we perform an extensive Monte Carlo simulation focusing on such a parameter range. Contrary to the variational result, however, we do not find any evidence of the chiral phase. The range of the chiral phase, if any, is estimated to be less than 0.1% in the temperature width.
Kawamura Hikaru
Okubo Tsuyoshi
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