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Journal of Applied Physics

Phase diagrams of diluted ferromagnetic Ising films in a transverse field

J. C. Cressoni, J.W. Tucker, Enaldo F. Sarmento

Published May 15, 1994• 5 citations
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Abstract

An effective-field theory that accounts for the self-spin correlation function is used to study the effect of surface dilution on the critical behavior of a ferromagnetic Ising film in transverse surface and bulk fields. Surface exchange enhancement (or reduction) is considered. It is shown that the surface and bulk fields affect the critical ratio of surface to bulk interactions, at which the surface orders before the bulk, in opposite ways. Although it is found that for the undiluted film this leads to a critical ratio that is practically insensitive to field for common bulk and surface field strengths, this feature is relaxed to a certain degree with surface dilution. The thickness dependence of the critical temperature, and phase diagrams in the fields, interaction strength ratio, and dilution parameter space, are presented.

DOI
10.1063/1.355586

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