 Compensation temperature in spin-1∕2 Ising trilayers: A Monte Carlo studyI.J.L. Diaz and N.S. Branco Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2020, vol. 540, issue C Abstract: We study the magnetic and thermodynamic properties of a spin-1∕2 Ising system containing three layers, each of which is composed exclusively of one out of two possible types of atoms, A or B. The A-A and B-B bonds are ferromagnetic while the A-B bonds are antiferromagnetic. The study is performed through Monte Carlo simulations using the Wolff algorithm and the data are analyzed with the aid of the multiple-histogram reweighting technique and finite-size scaling tools. We verify the occurrence of a compensation phenomenon and obtain the compensation and critical temperatures of the model as functions of the Hamiltonian parameters. The influence of each parameter on the overall behavior of the system is discussed in detail and we present our results in the form of phase diagrams dividing the parameter space in regions where the compensation phenomenon is present or absent. Our results may provide invaluable information for experimentalists seeking to build materials with desired characteristics. Keywords: Ising trilayer; Monte Carlo; Ferrimagnetism; Compensation temperature (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:phsmap:v:540:y:2020:i:c:s0378437119317029 DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2019.123014 Access Statistics for this article Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications is currently edited by K. A. Dawson, J. O. Indekeu, H.E. Stanley and C. Tsallis More articles in Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications from Elsevier |
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