Critical properties of XY model on two-layer triangular lattice

Tsuyoshi Horiguchi, Yi Wang and Yasushi Honda

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 1998, vol. 260, issue 1, 131-149

Abstract: We investigate phase transitions of the XY model on a two-layer triangular lattice when interactions are competing, by using Monte Carlo simulations. For the system with a ferromagnetic interaction on one of two layers and an antiferromagnetic interaction on the other layer, we find two different types of critical phenomena with two phase-transition temperatures; (1) each of phase transitions due to chirality and (2) the Kosterlitz-Thouless-type phase transition and a chirality transition. We clarify the nature of these phase transitions by using finite-size scaling analyses.

Keywords: XY model; KT transition; Chirality; Two-layer triangular lattice (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1998
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DOI: 10.1016/S0378-4371(98)00291-X

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