The antiferromagnetic classical XXZ model with easy-plane exchange anisotropy on the triangular lattice, which causes frustration of the spin alignment, is studied by means of Monte Carlo simulations. The system shows the signature;of a Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition, associated with vortex-antivortex unbinding, and of an Ising-like one due to the chirality, the latter occurring at a slightly higher temperature. Data for internal energy, specific heat, magnetic susceptibility, correlation length, and some properties associated with the chirality are reported in a broad temperature range for lattice sizes ranging from 24x24 to 120x120; four values of the easy-plane anisotropy are considered. Moving from the strongest towards the weakest anisotropy (1%), as the thermodynamic quantities tend to the isotropic model behavior, the two transition temperatures decrease by about 25% and 22%, respectively

Phase transitions induced by easy-plane anisotropy in the classical Heisenberg antiferromagnet on a triangular lattice: A Monte Carlo simulation / L. Capriotti; R. Vaia; A. Cuccoli; V. Tognetti. - In: PHYSICAL REVIEW. B, CONDENSED MATTER AND MATERIALS PHYSICS. - ISSN 1098-0121. - STAMPA. - 58:(1998), pp. 273-281. [10.1103/PhysRevB.58.273]

Phase transitions induced by easy-plane anisotropy in the classical Heisenberg antiferromagnet on a triangular lattice: A Monte Carlo simulation

CUCCOLI, ALESSANDRO;TOGNETTI, VALERIO
1998

Abstract

The antiferromagnetic classical XXZ model with easy-plane exchange anisotropy on the triangular lattice, which causes frustration of the spin alignment, is studied by means of Monte Carlo simulations. The system shows the signature;of a Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition, associated with vortex-antivortex unbinding, and of an Ising-like one due to the chirality, the latter occurring at a slightly higher temperature. Data for internal energy, specific heat, magnetic susceptibility, correlation length, and some properties associated with the chirality are reported in a broad temperature range for lattice sizes ranging from 24x24 to 120x120; four values of the easy-plane anisotropy are considered. Moving from the strongest towards the weakest anisotropy (1%), as the thermodynamic quantities tend to the isotropic model behavior, the two transition temperatures decrease by about 25% and 22%, respectively
1998
58
273
281
L. Capriotti; R. Vaia; A. Cuccoli; V. Tognetti
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