arXiv:cond-mat/9301028 · Physical review. B, Condensed matter
Histogram Monte Carlo study of the next-nearest-neighbor Ising antiferromagnet on a stacked triangular lattice
M. L. Plumer, Alain Mailhot, R. Ducharme, A. Caillé, H. T. Diep
Abstract
Critical properties of the Ising model on a stacked triangular lattice, with antiferromagnetic first- and second-neighbor in-plane interactions, are studied by extensive histogram Monte Carlo simulations. The results, in conjunction with the recently determined phase diagram, strongly suggest that the transition from the period-3 ordered state to the paramagnetic phase remains in the XY universality class. This conclusion is in contrast with a previous suggestion of mean-field tricritical behavior.