arXiv:1309.3588 · Acta Physica Polonica A
Monte Carlo Study of a Spin-3/2 Blume-Emery-Griffiths Model on a Honeycomb Lattice
Milan ˇ Zukovič, M. Jaščur
Abstract
We study the phase diagram of the spin-3/2 Blume-Emery-Griths model on a honeycomb lattice by Monte Carlo simulations in order to verify the presence of some peculiar features predicted by the eective eld theory (EFT) with correlations.The locations of the order-disorder phase boundaries are estimated from thermal variations of the magnetic susceptibility curves.It is found that for positive values of the biquadratic interactions the critical boundary shows a discontinuous character as a function of the single-ion anisotropy strength, in line with the EFT expectations.However, for negative values of the biquadratic interactions the step-like variation of the critical frontier predicted by EFT was not reproduced.