Novel phase transitions in XY Antiferromagnets on Plane Triangulations

Abstract

Using Monte Carlo simulations and finite-size scaling, we investigate the XY antiferromagnet on the triangular, Union Jack and bisected-hexagonal lattices, and in each case find both Ising and Kosterlitz-Thouless transitions. As is well-known, on the triangular lattice, as the temperature decreases the system develops chiral order for temperatures $T < \Tc$, and then quasi-long-range magnetic order on its sublattices when $T < \Ts$, with $\Ts < \Tc$. The behavior $\Ts<\Tc$ is predicted by theoretical arguments due to Korshunov, based on the unbinding of kink-antikink pairs. On the Union Jack and bisected-hexagonal lattices, by contrast, we find that as $T$ decreases the magnetizations on some of the sublattices become quasi-long-range ordered at a temperature $\Ts > \Tc$, before chiral order develops. In some cases, the sublattice spins then undergo a second transition, of Ising type, separating two quasi-long-range ordered phases. On the Union Jack lattice, the magnetization on the degree-4 sublattice remains disordered until $\Tc$ and then undergoes an Ising transition to a quasi-long-range ordered phase.

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