Artigo
Magnetic behavior of a ferroferrimagnetic ternary alloy ABρC1−ρ with a selective site disorder: Case study of a mixed-spin Ising model on a honeycomb lattice
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TORRICO, J. et al. Magnetic behavior of a ferroferrimagnetic ternary alloy ABρC1−ρ with a selective site disorder: Case study of a mixed-spin Ising model on a honeycomb lattice. Physical Review E, [S. I.], v. 101, n. 3, 032104, Mar. 2020. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.101.032104.
Autor
Torrico, Jordana
Strečka, Jozef
Santos, Onofre Rojas
Souza, Sergio Martins de
Lyra, Marcelo Leite
Institución
Resumen
Phase transitions, compensation phenomenon, and magnetization of a ferroferrimagnetic ternary alloy
A
B
ρ
C
1
−
ρ
composed of three different kinds of magnetic ions
A
,
B
, and
C
with the spin magnitudes 1/2, 1, and 3/2 are examined within the framework of a mixed-spin Ising model on a honeycomb lattice with a selective annealed site disorder on one of its two sublattices. It is supposed that the first sublattice of a bipartite honeycomb lattice is formed by the spin-1/2 magnetic ions, while the sites of the second sublattice are randomly occupied either by the spin-1 magnetic ions with a probability
ρ
or the spin-3/2 magnetic ions with a probability
1
−
ρ
, both being subject to a uniaxial single-ion anisotropy. The model under investigation can be exactly mapped into an effective spin-1/2 Ising model on a triangular lattice through the generalized star-triangle transformation. For a specific concentration of the spin-1 (spin-3/2) magnetic ions, it is shown that the ferroferrimagnetic version of the studied model may display a compensation temperature at which the total magnetization vanishes below a critical temperature. The critical temperature strikingly may also become independent of the concentration of the randomly mixed spin-1 and spin-3/2 magnetic ions for a specific value of a uniaxial single-ion anisotropy. The spontaneous magnetic order may be notably restored at finite temperatures through the order-by-disorder mechanism above a disordered ground state, which results in an anomalous temperature dependence of the total magnetization with double reentrant phase transitions.