Critical behavior of repulsive linear $k$-mers on triangular lattices

Details Critical behavior of repulsive linear $k$-mers on triangular lattices Critical behavior of repulsive linear $k$-mers on triangular lattices

2006-06-14

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0606391v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks

17 pages, 13 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.74.155418

Monte Carlo (MC) simulations and finite-size scaling analysis have been carried out to study the critical behavior in a submonolayer two-dimensional gas of repulsive linear $k$-mers on a triangular lattice at coverage $k/(2k+1)$. A low-temperature ordered phase, characterized by a repetition of alternating files of adsorbed $k$-mers separated by $k+1$ adjacent empty sites, is separated from the disordered state by a order-disorder phase transition occurring at a finite critical temperature, $T_c$. The MC technique was combined with the recently reported Free Energy Minimization Criterion Approach (FEMCA), [F. Rom\'a et al., Phys. Rev. B, 68, 205407, (2003)], to predict the dependence of the critical temperature of the order-disorder transformation. The dependence on $k$ of the transition temperature, $T_c(k)$, observed in MC is in qualitative agreement with FEMCA. In addition, an accurate determination of the critical exponents has been obtained for adsorbate sizes ranging between $k=1$ and $k=3$. For $k>1$, the results reveal that the system does not belong to the universality class of the two-dimensional Potts model with $q=3$ ($k=1$, monomers). Based on symmetry concepts, we suggested that the behavior observed for $k=1, 2$ and 3 could be generalized to include larger particle sizes ($k \geq 2$).

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