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Journal of the Physical Society of Japan

Non-Equilibrium Relaxation Study for Frustrated Spin System with Successive Phase Transitions

Keita Ogawa, Yukiyasu Ozeki

Published Sep 1, 2000• 15 citations
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Abstract

The non-equilibrium relaxation method (NER) is applied to a frustrated spin system with competitive interactions. The critical point and critical exponents are estimated accurately for the Blume-Emery-Griffiths model in three dimensions. It is applied to the region where successive transitions of PM-FM-PM-SQ phases occur; we denote paramagnetic (PM), ferromagnetic (FM) and staggered quadrupole (SQ) phases. With the analysis for relaxation of fluctuations, we can estimate various critical exponents. The result indicates that all transitions belong to the Ising universality class in three dimensions. It is found that the NER method is useful to analyze the critical phenomena for complex systems in which equilibrium simulation is even difficult.

DOI
10.1143/jpsj.69.2808

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