Condensed Matter Physics
Non-universal critical behaviour of a mixed-spin Ising model on the extended Kagomé lattice
Jozef Strečka, Canova
Abstract
The mixed spin-1/2 and spin-3/2 Ising model on the extended Kagom é lattice is solved by establishing a mapping correspondence with the eight-vertex model.When the parameter of uniaxial single-ion anisotropy tends to infinity, the model system becomes exactly solvable as the staggered eight-vertex model satisfying the free-fermion condition.The critical points within this manifold can be characterized by critical exponents from the standard Ising universality class.The critical points within another subspace of interaction parameters, which corresponds to a coexistence surface between two ordered phases, can be approximated by corresponding results of the uniform eight-vertex model satisfying the zero-field condition.This coexistence surface is bounded by a line of bicritical points that have non-universal continuously varying critical indices.