Physics – Condensed Matter – Statistical Mechanics
Scientific paper
2003-07-11
Physics
Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
18 pages, 9 figures, 2 tables
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevB.70.104413
We have used Monte Carlo simulations to observe the magnetic behaviour of Ising thin-films with cubic lattice structures as a function of temperature and thickness especially in the critical region. The fourth order Binder cumulant is used to extract critical temperatures, and an extension of finite size scaling theory for reduced geometry is derived to calculate the critical exponents. Magnetisation and magnetic susceptibility per spin in each layer are also investigated. In addition, mean-field calculations are also performed for comparison. We find that the magnetic behaviour changes from two dimensional to three dimensional character with increasing thickness of the film. The crossover of the critical temperature from a two dimensional to a bulk value is also observed with both the Monte Carlo simulations and the mean-field analysis. Nevertheless, the simulations have shown that the critical exponents only vary a little from their two dimensional values. In particular, the results for films with up to eight layers provide a strong indication of two dimensional universality.
Laosiritaworn Y.
Poulter J.
Staunton Julie B.
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