Physics – Condensed Matter – Statistical Mechanics
Scientific paper
2000-10-18
Physics
Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
To appear in Physical Review E
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevE.63.016112
The phase transitions in the transverse field Ising model in a competing spatially modulated (periodic and oscillatory) longitudinal field are studied numerically. There is a multiphase point in absence of the transverse field where the degeneracy for a longitudinal field of wavelength $\lambda$ is $(\frac {1 + \sqrt{5}}{2})^{2N/\lambda}$ for a system with $N$ spins, an exact result obtained from the known result for $\lambda =2$. The phase transitions in the $\Gamma $ (transverse field) versus $h_0$ (amplitude of the longitudinal field) phase diagram are obtained from the vanishing of the mass gap $\Delta$. We find that for all the phase transition points obtained in this way, $\Delta $ shows finite size scaling behaviour signifying a continuous phase transition everywhere. The values of the critical exponents show that the model belongs to the universality class of the two dimensional Ising model. The longitudinal field is found to have the same scaling behaviour as that of the transverse field, which seems to be a unique feature for the competing field. The phase boundaries for two different wavelengths of the modulated field are obtained. Close to the multiphase point at $h_c$, the phase boundary behaves as $(h_c - h_0)^b$, where $b$ is also $\lambda$ dependent.
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