We have employed the Oguchi approximation (OA) to investigate the effects of a random crystal field which is active (inactive) with probability [Formula: see text] [Formula: see text] for given lattice sites on the thermodynamic properties of the mixed spin-[Formula: see text] anisotropic Heisenberg model in the presence of an external magnetic field. By exploiting the thermal variations of the order parameters, interesting phase diagrams are produced on various planes. The phase diagrams show first- and second-order transition lines and also tricritical points. In addition to the reentrant behavior which is localized in a certain range of [Formula: see text] at very low temperature, the magnetic exponent [Formula: see text] calculated near the critical point exhibits interesting behaviors depending on the crystal field interaction. The hysteresis behavior of the model is also investigated and it reveals that the width of hysteresis loop decreases or increases, respectively, for negative or positive crystal field region as the probability [Formula: see text] increases.
The critical and hysteresis behaviors of the ferromagnetic mixed-spin system consisting of two sublattices A and B with two types of spins SA=32 and SB=12 described by anisotropic Classical-Heisenberg Model on a square lattice are examined by using Monte Carlo simulations based on metropolis algorithm. By exploiting the thermal variations of the order-parameters and the magnetic susceptibility, the phase diagrams are calculated on the (Dz/J, kBT/J), (Dx/J, kBT/J) and (Δ, kBT/J) planes and the effects of various interaction parameters in the Hamiltonian are explored. It is found that the model yields only second-order phase transitions. We have also estimated the critical exponents ν, β and γ of the model as functions of Dz and Dx by using the finite-size scaling arguments and found that they depend on the details of the model. Finally, the hysteresis behavior of the model is also investigated and it is revealed that the width of hysteresis loop decreases with temperature while it increases for positive Dz values.
We investigated the dynamical behavior of an Ising model in a square lattice subject to a time-dependent external magnetic field. In our model the exchange coupling between first neighboring spins in the horizontal direction is different from that of the vertical direction. We have employed the master equation approach for the Glauber stochastic process and used the dynamical pair approximation in order to decouple the hierarchy of equations. We have found the stationary phase diagram for this model in the plane amplitude of the oscillating field versus temperature, for different values of the frequency of the external field and of the ratio between the vertical and the horizontal couplings. Depending on these values, the phase diagram can exhibit the ferromagnetic, paramagnetic, and antiferromagnetic phases. The transition between these phases can be continuous or discontinuous, and the model may also display a tricritical behavior.
We have studied, using Monte Carlo (MC) simulation for ferromagnetic Ising systems in one to four dimensions and solving numerically the mean-field (MF) equation of motion, the nature of the response magnetization m(t) of an Ising system in the presence of a periodically varying external field [h(t)=
h0cos(\ensuremath{\omega}t)]. From these studies, we determine the m-h loop or hysteresis loop area A(=\ensuremath{\oint}mdh) and the dynamic order parameter Q(=\ensuremath{\oint}mdt) and investigate their variations with the frequency (\ensuremath{\omega}) and amplitude (
h0) of the applied external magnetic field and the temperature (T) of the system. The variations in A are fitted to a scaling form, assumed to be valid over a wide range of parameter (\ensuremath{\omega},
h0,T) values, and the best-fit exponents are obtained in all three dimensions (D=2,3,4). The scaling function is Lorentzian in the MF case and is exponentially decaying, with an initial power law, for the MC cases. The dynamic phase boundary (in the
h0-T plane) is found to be frequency dependent and the transition (from Q\ensuremath{\ne}0 for low T and
h0 to Q=0 for high T and
h0) across the boundary crosses over from a discontinuous to a continuous one at a tricritical point. These boundaries are determined in various cases.We find that the response can be generally expressed as m(t)=P(\ensuremath{\omega}(t-${\mathrm{\ensuremath{\tau}}}_{\mathrm{eff}}$)) where P denotes a periodic function with the same frequency \ensuremath{\omega} of the perturbing field and ${\mathrm{\ensuremath{\tau}}}_{\mathit{e}\mathit{f}\mathit{f}}$(
h0,\ensuremath{\omega},T) denotes the effective delay. We established that this effective delay ${\mathrm{\ensuremath{\tau}}}_{\mathit{e}\mathit{f}\mathit{f}}$ of the response is the crucial term and it practically determines all the above observations for A, Q, etc. Investigating the nature of the in-phase (\ensuremath{\chi}\ensuremath{'}) and the out-of-phase (\ensuremath{\chi}\ensuremath{'}\ensuremath{'}) susceptibility, defined as \ensuremath{\chi}\ensuremath{'}=(
m0/
h0)cos(\ensuremath{\varphi}) and \ensuremath{\chi}\ensuremath{'}\ensuremath{'}=(
m0/
h0)sin(\ensuremath{\varphi}); \ensuremath{\varphi}=\ensuremath{\omega}${\mathrm{\ensuremath{\tau}}}_{\mathit{e}\mathit{f}\mathit{f}}$ [and
m0 is the amplitude of m(t)], we find that the loop area A is directly given by \ensuremath{\chi}\ensuremath{'}\ensuremath{'} and also the temperature variation of \ensuremath{\chi}\ensuremath{'}\ensuremath{'}, at fixed \ensuremath{\omega} and
h0, gives a prominent peak at the dynamic transition point. We have also studied the behavior of the response magnetization by the application of a short-duration (compared with the relaxation time) pulsed magnetic field.Here, we observed (both in the MC and MF cases) that the width ratio (of the half-width and the width of the response magnetization and of the pulsed field, respectively) and the susceptibility (the ratio of excess magnetization over its equilibrium value and the height of the pulsed field) both show sharp peaks at the order-disorder (ferromagnetic-paramagnetic) transition point. We have also studied similar response behavior of Ising systems in the presence of time-varying longitudinal and transverse fields, solving numerically the mean-field equation of motion. We have again studied here the nature of the dynamic phase transition and the behavior of the ac susceptibility (both longitudinal and transverse) across the dynamic phase boundary. For a short-duration pulse of the transverse field, the width ratio and the pulse susceptibility are again seen to diverge at the order-disorder transition point.
The critical behavior of systems that exhibit magnetism has been the subject of intense research. The Heisenberg model deserves special attention because it is a tool to be used to describe the properties of many magnetic, insulators and anisotropic materials. In addition, it is known that the consideration of anisotropic effects in many spin models can result in the presence of tricritical behavior in the phase diagram and thermodynamic properties. In particular, the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya (DM) interaction consists of an important type of anisotropy, which since the last decades has attracted a great deal of attention, playing an important role in the description of some classes of insulators, as well as in the study of the phenomena involving spin-glass, among others. The presence of disorder in the models, introduced by random variables governed by a given probability distribution, also usually results in the alteration of the critical behavior in relation to the homogeneous system. Therefore, the interest in the systems in the presence of random field has grown. With such motivation, the spin-1/2 and spin-1 anisotropic Heisenberg models with DM interaction and magnetic random field are studied within the framework of Oguchi’s pair approximation. Although the approach is developed for lattices with general coordination number z the model is discussed in detail for the simple cubic lattice (z = 6). The critical behavior dependent on both the DM parameter and the random field is analyzed. The investigation of phase diagrams reveals the presence of tricritical points and the results are extended to describe the behavior of the thermodynamic properties of the system.