The order of phase transition of a two-dimensional Ising model with m-body interactions in the horizontal direction and n-body interactions in the vertical direction in the m = 3, n = 3 case is of the first-order which is determined by our Monte Carlo algorithm, while in the m= 3,n=2 case the transition is of the second order.
The article deals with two-dimensional and three-dimensional Ising models with the long-range spin interactions. The intensity of interaction between the spins relies decreasing with distance r as a power law r-d-σ with dimensional d and parameter σ. The research are conducted by Monte-Carlo method with Metropolis algorithm using parallel computing techniques. On the basis of nu- merical simulation the dependence of the phase transition temperature on the parameter σ is found. It is shown that at phase transition temperature decreases with increasing σ.
First- and second-order phase transitions in the isotropic Heisenberg model with multispin exchange were investigated with the help of the quantum Monte Carlo method. The calculations were performed for a system with spin S = 1/2 and N = L3 spins (L = 8, 12, and 16) on simple cubic lattices with periodic boundary conditions. A relation between the pair and multispin exchange constants for which the second- order phase transitions are replaced by first-order phase transitions is established. First-order phase transitions have not been studied previously by the quantum Monte Carlo method. Phase diagrams were constructed for the model under study. The computational results are compared with the method of Green’s functions and the molecular-field theory.