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Phase Transitions

Critical behavior of the S = 1 Blume Capel model with transverse and random anisotropy based on the Bogoliubov variational approach

Itacy José de Souza, J.L.B. Faria, Ricardo Ferreira Bento, A.S. de Arruda, T.M. Tunes, M. F. Z. Arruda, Mounirou Karimou

Published Aug 3, 2025• 1 citation
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Abstract

We investigated the critical behavior of the S=1 Blume Capel model in a scenario where the system is subject to a transverse crystalline field (D), which was randomly distributed through a bimodal probability distribution where p (1−p) corresponds to a fraction of sites that are (are not) under the action of the crystalline field. Using mean field theory based on Bogoulibov inequality for free energy, we obtain phase diagrams in the planes of the crystalline field versus temperature (D−τ) and magnetization versus temperature and (m−τ). We show that the topology of the phase diagrams depends significantly on the model parameters. The competition between temperature (τ), exchange interaction, and the random distribution of the crystalline field are responsible for revealing essential details of the critical behavior observed in the phase diagrams obtained as tricritical points (TCP) that separate the phase transition lines first and second order.

DOI
10.1080/01411594.2025.2540394

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