Obtaining pressure versus concentration phase diagrams in spin systems from Monte Carlo simulations

Details Obtaining pressure versus concentration phase diagrams in spin systems from Monte Carlo simulations Obtaining pressure versus concentration phase diagrams in spin systems from Monte Carlo simulations

2008-09-23

arxiv.org/abs/0809.4023v1

Physical Review E 76, 021118 (2007)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.76.021118

We propose an efficient procedure for determining phase diagrams of systems that are described by spin models. It consists of combining cluster algorithms with the method proposed by Sauerwein and de Oliveira where the grand canonical potential is obtained directly from the Monte Carlo simulation, without the necessity of performing numerical integrations. The cluster algorithm presented in this paper eliminates metastability in first order phase transitions allowing us to locate precisely the first-order transitions lines. We also produce a different technique for calculating the thermodynamic limit of quantities such as the magnetization whose infinite volume limit is not straightforward in first order phase transitions. As an application, we study the Andelman model for Langmuir monolayers made of chiral molecules that is equivalent to the Blume-Emery-Griffiths spin-1 model. We have obtained the phase diagrams in the case where the intermolecular forces favor interactions between enantiomers of the same type (homochiral interactions). In particular, we have determined diagrams in the surface pressure versus concentration plane which are more relevant from the experimental point of view and less usual in numerical studies.

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