Chinese Physics Letters
Critical Exponents for the Re-entrant Phase Transitions in the Three-Dimensional Blume–Emery–Griffiths Model on the Cellular Automaton
Nurgül Seferoğlu, Bülent Kutlu
Abstract
The critical behaviour of the three-dimensional Blume–Emery–Griffiths (BEG) model is investigated at D / J = 0, -0.25 and -1 in the range of −1⩽ K / J ⩽0 for J = 100. The simulations are carried out on a simple cubic lattice using the heating algorithm improved from the Creutz cellular automaton (CCA) under periodic boundary conditions. The universality of the model are obtained for re-entrant and double re-entrant phase transitions which occur at certain D / J and K / J parameters, with J and K representing the nearest-neighbour bilinear and biquadratic interactions, and D being the single-ion anisotropy parameter. The values of static critical exponents β, γ and ν are estimated within the framework of the finite-size scaling theory. The results are compatible with the universal Ising critical behaviour for all continuous phase transitions in these ranges.