Phase Diagram and Tricritical Behavior of a Spin-2 Transverse Ising Model in a Random Field
Yaqiu Liang, Guozhu Wei, Song Li-Li +2 more
The phase diagrams of a spin-2 transverse Ising model with a random field on honeycomb, square, and simple-cubic lattices, respectively, are investigated within the framework of an effective-field theory with correlations. We find the behavior of the tricritical point and the reentrant phenomenon for the system with any coordination number z , when the applied random field is bimodal. The behavior of the tricritical point is also examined as a function of applied transverse field. The reentrant phenomenon comes from the competition between the transverse field and the random field.
Communications in Theoretical Physics•Oct 15, 2004•10 citations