Physics of the Solid State
Thermodynamic and magnetic properties of a three-state Potts model on a triangular lattice with next-neighbor interactions
Albert Babaevich Babaev, T. R. Rizvanova, Akai Kurbanovich Murtazaev
Abstract
Using Monte Carlo calculations, we study the thermodynamic and magnetic properties of 2D structures that can be described by a three-state Potts model on a triangular lattice with nearest- and secondnearest- neighbor interactions characterized by the coupling constants J 1 and J 2, respectively. Analyzing the thermodynamic parameters of heat capacity, the order parameter, the susceptibility, and fourth-order Binder cumulants, we show that the three-state Potts model with coupling constants J 1 > 0 and J 2 < 0 predicts a phase transition of the second kind for 0 ≤ |r| ≤ 1/3, where r = J 2/J 1.