Stepwise positional-orientational order and the multicritical-multistructural global phase diagram of the s=3/2 Ising model from renormalization-group theory

Yunus, Çağın and Renklioğlu, Başak and Keskin, Mustafa and Berker, A. Nihat (2016) Stepwise positional-orientational order and the multicritical-multistructural global phase diagram of the s=3/2 Ising model from renormalization-group theory. Physical Review E, 93 (6). ISSN 2470-0045 (Print) 2470-0053 (Online)

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Abstract

The spin-3/2 Ising model, with nearest-neighbor interactions only, is the prototypical system with two different ordering species, with concentrations regulated by a chemical potential. Its global phase diagram, obtained in d = 3 by renormalization-group theory in the Migdal-Kadanoff approximation or equivalently as an exact solution of a d = 3 hierarchical lattice, with flows subtended by 40 different fixed points, presents a very rich structure containing eight different ordered and disordered phases, with more than 14 different types of phase diagrams in temperature and chemical potential. It exhibits phases with orientational and/or positional order. It also exhibits quintuple phase transition reentrances. Universality of critical exponents is conserved across different renormalization-group flow basins via redundant fixed points. One of the phase diagrams contains a plastic crystal sequence, with positional and orientational ordering encountered consecutively as temperature is lowered. The global phase diagram also contains double critical points, first-order and critical lines between two ordered phases, critical end points, usual and unusual (inverted) bicritical points, tricritical points, multiple tetracritical points, and zero-temperature criticality and bicriticality. The four-state Potts permutation-symmetric subspace is contained in this model.
Item Type: Article
Divisions: President's Office
Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences > Basic Sciences > Physics
Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences
Depositing User: A. Nihat Berker
Date Deposited: 16 Nov 2016 10:03
Last Modified: 16 Nov 2016 10:03
URI: https://research.sabanciuniv.edu/id/eprint/30954

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