Multicritical behavior of two-dimensional anisotropic antiferromagnets in a magnetic field

Details Multicritical behavior of two-dimensional anisotropic antiferromagnets in a magnetic field Multicritical behavior of two-dimensional anisotropic antiferromagnets in a magnetic field

2007-02-12

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0702273v1

Phys. Rev. B 76 (2007) 024436

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

21 pages, 8 figs

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.76.024436

We study the phase diagram and multicritical behavior of anisotropic Heisenberg antiferromagnets on a square lattice in the presence of a magnetic field along the easy axis. We argue that, beside the Ising and XY critical lines, the phase diagram presents a first-order spin-flop line starting from T=0, as in the three-dimensional case. By using field theory we show that the multicritical point where these transition lines meet cannot be O(3) symmetric and occurs at finite temperature. We also predict how the critical temperature of the transition lines varies with the magnetic field and the uniaxial anisotropy in the limit of weak anisotropy.

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