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arXiv:1311.6851 · Physical Review E

Quantum spin-1 anisotropic ferromagnetic Heisenberg model in a crystal field: A variational approach

D. C. Carvalho, J. A. Plascak, L. M. Castro

Published Sep 6, 2013• 10 citations
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Abstract

A variational approach based on Bogoliubov inequality for the free energy is employed in order to treat the quantum spin-1 anisotropic ferromagnetic Heisenberg model in the presence of a crystal field. Within the Bogoliubov scheme an improved pair approximation has been used. The temperature-dependent thermodynamic functions have been obtained and provide much better results than the previous simple mean-field scheme. In one dimension, which is still nonintegrable for quantum spin-1, we get the exact results in the classical limit, or near-exact results in the quantum case, for the free energy, magnetization, and quadrupole moment, as well for the transition temperature. In two and three dimensions the corresponding global phase diagrams have been obtained as a function of the parameters of the Hamiltonian. First-order transition lines, second-order transition lines, tricritical and tetracritical points, and critical endpoints have been located through the analysis of the minimum of the Helmholtz free energy and a Landau-like expansion in the approximated free energy. Only first-order quantum transitions have been found at zero temperature. Limiting cases, such as isotropic Heisenberg, Blume-Capel, and Ising models, have been analyzed and compared to previous results obtained from other analytical approaches as well as from Monte Carlo simulations.

DOI
10.1103/physreve.88.032111

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A variational approach based on Bogoliubov inequality for the free energy is employed in order to treat the quantum spin-1 anisotropic ferromagnetic Heisenberg model in the presence of a crystal field. Within the Bogoliubov scheme an improved pair approximation has been used. The temperature-dependent thermodynamic functions have been obtained and provide much better results than the previous simple mean-field scheme. In one dimension, which is still nonintegrable for quantum spin-1, we get the exact results in the classical limit, or near-exact results in the quantum case, for the free energy, magnetization, and quadrupole moment, as well for the transition temperature. In two and three dimensions the corresponding global phase diagrams have been obtained as a function of the parameters of the Hamiltonian. First-order transition lines, second-order transition lines, tricritical and tetracritical points, and critical endpoints have been located through the analysis of the minimum of the Helmholtz free energy and a Landau-like expansion in the approximated free energy. Only first-order quantum transitions have been found at zero temperature. Limiting cases, such as isotropic Heisenberg, Blume-Capel, and Ising models, have been analyzed and compared to previous results obtained from other analytical approaches as well as from Monte Carlo simulations.
The ferromagnetic spin-2 quantum Blume-Capel model in the presence of a transverse crystal field interaction is studied by employing a variational approach based on Bogoliubov inequality for the free energy and an exact mapping of the ground state. The thermodynamic properties have been obtained using a single spin cluster, which is equivalent to the usual mean-field approximation. The temperature dependence of the magnetization has been analyzed and the global phase diagram, as function of the model parameters, has been obtained for any values of the coordination number of the lattice. A variety of quantum phase transitions, multiple and multicritical points, are present in several topologies of the corresponding phase diagrams. The ground state properties of the system have also been obtained through an exact mapping of the spin-2 model onto another equivalent spin-1 Blume-Capel model in a transverse field. This mapping allows one to determine an exact asymptote formula of the phase diagram at zero temperature in the limit of large longitudinal crystal field for any lattice dimension.
We investigate the phase diagram for the spin-3/23/23/2 ferromagnetic Blume-Capel model in a transverse crystal field using the standard mean-field approximation within the framework of Bogoliubov inequality for free energy. We draw a very rich phase diagram with first- and second-order transition lines; tricritical and tetracritical points; critical endpoint of order 2 and double critical endpoint. Additionally, the behaviour of magnetisation as a function of temperature over a wide range of values of both longitudinal and transverse crystal fields is also analysed. To the best of our knowledge, this quantum spin model has only been studied employing an effective field theory, which in turn was not able to characterise completely the multicritical phenomena in its phase diagram, because that procedure is not based on free energy. Thus, our findings on the phase diagram for the present model are novel as they have been not previously reported.
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