Physics – Condensed Matter – Statistical Mechanics
Scientific paper
2008-03-06
Physics
Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
4 pages, 2 figures, published in Phys. Rev. E, vol. 77, 012104 (2998)
Scientific paper
The phase diagram of the spin-1 Ising model in the presence of a biaxial crystal-field anisotropy is studied within the framework of a variational approach, based on the Bogolyubov inequality for the free energy. We have investigated the effects of a transverse crystal-field $D_{y}$ on the phase diagram in the $T-D_{x}$ plane. Results obtained by using effective-field theory (EFT) on the honeycomb (% $z=3$), square ($z=4$) and simple cubic ($z=6$) lattices ($z$ is the coordination number) show only continuous phase transitions, while the variational approach presents first-order and continuous phase transitions for $D_{y}=0$% . We have also used the EFT for larger values of $z$ and we observe the presence of tricritical points in the phase diagrams, for $z\geq 7$, in accordance with the variational approach results.
Branco N. S.
de Sousa Ricardo J.
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