Physical review. B, Condensed matter
Second-order phase transition in the fully frustrated XY model with next-nearest-neighbor coupling
Qing‐Hu Chen, Meng-Bo Luo, Zhengkuan Jiao
Abstract
The short time dynamic behavior of the second-order phase transition in the two-dimensional fully frustrated $\mathrm{XY}$ model with nearest-neighbor (NN) and next-nearest-neighbor (NNN) couplings is investigated using Monte Carlo simulations. When $x<1/\sqrt{2}$ $(x$ is the ratio between NNN and NN couplings), the transition temperature ${T}_{c}$ and the dynamic and static critical exponents z, $2\ensuremath{\beta}/\ensuremath{\nu},$ and $\ensuremath{\nu}$ are estimated using the short-time dynamic scaling analysis. Except x close to the critical value $1/\sqrt{2},$ the critical exponents $2\ensuremath{\beta}/\ensuremath{\nu}$ and $\ensuremath{\nu}$ are found to be almost independent of the NNN coupling, indicating that the second-order phase transitions in the $\mathrm{FF}\mathrm{XY}$ model, with or without NNN coupling, are in the same universality class. When $x>1/\sqrt{2},$ the short-time dynamic study suggests that there is no second-order phase transition, in agreement with the previous result [Phys. Rev. B 62, R9287 (2000)].