Condensed Matter Physics, 2005, vol. 8, No. 4(44), p. 869-880, English
DOI:10.5488/CMP.8.4.869
Title:
Reentrant transitions of a mixed-spin Ising model on the diced
lattice
Author(s):
 
| M.Jascur
(Department of Theoretical Physics and
Astrophysics, Faculty of Science, P.J. Safárik University,
Park Angelinum 9, 040 01 Kosice, Slovak Republic)
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| J.Strecka
(Department of Theoretical Physics and
Astrophysics, Faculty of Science, P.J. Safárik University,
Park Angelinum 9, 040 01 Kosice, Slovak Republic)
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Magnetic behaviour of a mixed spin-1/2 and spin-1 Ising model on
the diced lattice is studied using an exact star-triangle mapping
transformation. It is found that the uniaxial as well as biaxial
single-ion anisotropy acting on the spin-1 sites may potentially
cause a reentrant transition with two consecutive critical points.
Contrary to this, the effect of next-nearest-neighbour interaction
between the spin-1/2 sites possibly leads to a reentrant
transition with three critical temperatures in addition to the one
with two critical points only. The shape of the total
magnetization versus temperature dependence is particularly
investigated for the case of ferrimagnetically ordered system.
Key words:
reentrant transition, Ising model, exact solution,
star-triangle transformation, uniaxial and biaxial single-ion anisotropy
PACS:
75.10.Hk, 05.50.+q, 75.40
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