Physics – Condensed Matter – Statistical Mechanics
Scientific paper
2008-02-08
Physics
Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
7 pages, 5 figures included
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevB.77.214437
Spin-crossover compounds, which are characterized by magnetic ions showing low-spin and high-spin states at thermally accessible energies, are ubiquitous in nature. We here focus on the effect of an exchange interaction on the collective properties for the case of non-magnetic low-spin ions, which applies to Fe(II) compounds. Monte Carlo simulations are used to study a three-dimensional spin-crossover model for the full parameter range from essentially pure high spin to essentially pure low spin. We find that as the low-spin state becomes more favorable, the Curie temperature drops, the universality class deviates from the three-dimensional Heisenberg class, and the transition eventually changes to first order. A heat-bath algorithm that grows or shrinks low-spin and high-spin domains is developed to handle the first-order transition. When the ground state has low spin, a reentrant magnetic transition is found in a broad parameter range. We also observe a percolation transition of the high spins, which branches off the first-order magnetic transition.
Pye Charles J.
Timm Carsten
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