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Journal of Physics A Mathematical and General

Roughening transitions and the zero-temperature triangular Ising antiferromagnet

Henk W. J. Blöte, H J Hilborst

Published Nov 1, 1982• 237 citations
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Abstract

The zero-temperature triangular Ising antiferromagnet is mapped onto a solid-on-solid (SOS) model. The system undergoes a roughening transition characterised by a critical exponent alpha = 1 / 2 , by the absence of excitations in the smooth phase, and by domain wall excitations (stripes) in the rough phase. At infinite SOS temperature the height-height correlation function is explicitly calculated with the aid of known four-point Ising correlations. The authors point out that a certain six-vertex model with a comparable SOS interpretation has an identical critical temperature, critical exponent and critical amplitude. This is in support of existing ideas on university in systems with striped phases.

DOI
10.1088/0305-4470/15/11/011

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We have shown that the ground-state problem of the spin SSS antiferromagnetic Ising model on the triangular lattice maps to a certain solid-on-solid (SOS) model. For $S<{S}_{c}\ensuremath{\sim}3$ this SOS model is in a rough phase while for S>ScS>{S}_{c}S>Sc​ it enters a flat phase. The rough phase, whose stability is examined, corresponds to the critical ground state of the Ising model. We suggest that the flat phase corresponds to the ground state with hidden long-range order.
Abstract Phase transition of the discrete Laplacian roughening model was investigated on a triangular lattice of various sizes by using the Wang–Landau (WL) Monte Carlo simulation and finite-size scaling analysis of partition-function zeros. The density of states was calculated using the WL method, and the internal energy and specific heat were calculated as a function of temperature. A single transition was observed at T c = 1.855(5) with a new universality class of the correlation exponent ν = 0.70(1) and the specific heat exponent α = 0.60(4). The results were confirmed by the finite size scaling analysis of the first zeros for the partition function. The critical exponents satisfy the scaling relation α = 2 − dν very well.
Space renormalization group calculations are performed for a class of spin-SSS Ising systems, using a modification of Migdal's recursion relation. Interface-roughening models are obtained when $S\ensuremath{\rightarrow}\ensuremath{\infty}$ and tricritical points and critical lines become the roughening temperature and rough phase. The latter corresponds to the low-temperature phases of the classical Coulomb gas and two-dimensional XY\mathrm{XY}XY model and implications for the XY\mathrm{XY}XY-model exponent $\ensuremath{\eta}$ are discussed.
We map the ground-state ensemble of antiferromagnetic Ising model of spin-S on a triangular lattice to an interface model whose entropic fluctuations are proposed to be described by an effective Gaussian free energy, which enables us to calculate the critical exponents of various operators in terms of the stiffness constant of the interface. Monte Carlo simulations for the ground-state ensemble utilizing this interfacial representation are performed to study both the dynamical and the static properties of the model. This method yields more accurate numerical results for the critical exponents. By varying the spin magnitude in the model, we find that the model exhibits three phases with a Kosterlitz-Thouless phase transition at ${\mathrm{S}}_{\mathrm{KT}}$2 and a locking phase transition at SL{\mathrm{S}}_{\mathrm{L}}SL​\ensuremath{\leqslant}3. The phase diagram at finite temperatures is also discussed.
The ground-state properties of the triangular antiferromagnetic Ising model with Ising constant J in a transverse field h are investigated by a real-space renormalisation group method. For h=0, the known properties (energy=-J, finite entropy, no order) are recovered. For h not=0, the ground state remains highly degenerate, no order exists and the correlation function exhibits power-law behaviour up to (h/J)c approximately=1.41, where a phase transition takes place to a non-degenerate ground state. At h/J=(h/J)c, power-law behaviour is still observed for the correlation function but with a different exponent. Just above this region a gap Delta opens ( Delta approximately ((h/J)-(h/J)c)s with s=0.8) and the coherence length of the correlation function xi diverges as xi varies as ((h/J)-(h/J)c)-v with v=0.8. This corresponds to a three-dimensional classical model where h is replaced by the temperature. In this type of system, where the ground state has a degeneracy proportional to N2/3 it is predicted that a transition will occur at a finite T c to a low-temperature phase without order but with power-law behaviour for the correlation function, as for the classical XY model in two dimensions.
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