Ground state of antiferromagnetic thin films of the XY model under magnetic field and uniaxial potential

Michinari Momma and Tsuyoshi Horiguchi

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 1998, vol. 259, issue 1, 105-118

Abstract: We investigate ground-state properties of antiferromagnetic thin films of the XY model under an external magnetic field and a uniaxial potential by numerical calculations. We clarify surface effects by comparing the ground-state properties of thin films with those of the system with infinite number of layers. A number of phases appearing in a system with an even number of layers is larger than that in a system with an odd number of layers. We elucidate those by obtaining phase diagrams for the systems with 10 layers and 11 layers.

Keywords: Magnetic thin film; XY model; Ground state; Surface spin flop; Bulk spin flop (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1998
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DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4371(98)00237-4

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