Journal of Physics A Mathematical and General
Phase diagrams of two inhomogeneous Ising models on the triangular lattice
Andrzej Pękalski
Abstract
Phase diagrams of two inhomogeneous annealed Ising models on the triangular lattice are constructed in an exact way. The interimpurity exchange constants (bonds), of the same but arbitrary value and sign, can be located along the horizontal edges of the triangles. In the first model the remaining non-random couplings are ferromagnetic and in the second they are antiferromagnetic. The dependence of the correlation functions and magnetisation on the temperature is calculated and discussed. It is shown that, for certain values of the impurity bond couplings and a range of their concentrations, there is no net magnetic moment at T=0 and low temperatures. The magnetisation appears at some finite temperature and then vanishes at a higher one. This increase of the magnetisation with the temperature is connected with the role of entropy in determining the minimum of the free energy.