Specific heat of quasi-2D antiferromagnetic Heisenberg models with varying inter-planar couplings

Details Specific heat of quasi-2D antiferromagnetic Heisenberg models with varying inter-planar couplings Specific heat of quasi-2D antiferromagnetic Heisenberg models with varying inter-planar couplings

2003-06-02

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0306046v1

Phys. Rev. B 68, 094423 (2003)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

7 pages, 8 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.68.094423

We have used the stochastic series expansion (SSE) quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) method to study the three-dimensional (3D) antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model on cubic lattices with in-plane coupling J and varying inter-plane coupling J_perp < J. The specific heat curves exhibit a 3D ordering peak as well as a broad maximum arising from short-range 2D order. For J_perp << J, there is a clear separation of the two peaks. In the simulations, the contributions to the total specific heat from the ordering across and within the layers can be separated, and this enables us to study in detail the 3D peak around T_c (which otherwise typically is dominated by statistical noise). We find that the peak height decreases with decreasing J_perp, becoming nearly linear below J_perp = 0.2J. The relevance of these results to the lack of observed specific heat anomaly at the ordering transition of some quasi-2D antiferromagnets is discussed.

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