Journal of Physics A Mathematical and General
Critical behaviour of two Ising models with near-neighbour exclusion
Ferenc Iglói, Jouke R. Heringa, M M F Philippens, A. Hoogland, Henk W. J. Blöte
Abstract
The authors have performed extensive Monte Carlo simulations of two-dimensional layered Ising lattice gases with (m-1)-neighbour exclusion in the x direction and pair attraction in the y direction. They studied the specific heat of the models in systems with different rectangular shapes and the spin-spin correlation function in the x direction near to the critical point. For the m=3 model both the thermal and magnetic exponents were estimated to be close to the known values of the three-state Potts model. Estimates for the critical exponents of the m=4 model are consistent with a commensurate-incommensurate transition; however they find no independent evidence for the existence of a floating phase.