Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics
Damage spreading in the mixed spin Ising model
Ce-Jun Liu, H.-B. Schüttler, Jia-Zhen Hu
Abstract
We apply the damage spreading technique to study a mixed spin Ising model consisting of spin 1/2 and spin 1 with a crystal field interaction on the square lattice within a kind of Metropolis dynamics. The completely different behavior, depending on the value of the crystal field interaction, strongly suggests there may exist a dynamical tricritical point where the phase transition may change from the second order to the first order for this model.