Spin dependence of the tricritical point in the mixed-spin Blume-Capel model on three-dimensional lattices: Metropolis and Wang-Landau sampling approaches

Abstract

We investigate the mixed-spin Blume-Capel model with spin-1/2 and spin-$S$ ($S=1$, $2$, and $3$) on the simple cubic and body-centered cubic lattices with single-ion-splitting crystal-field ($\Delta$) by using the Metropolis and the Wang-Landau Monte Carlo methods. By numerical simulations, we prove that the tricritical point is spin-independent for both lattices. The positions of the tricritical point in the phase diagram are determined as (${\Delta }_t/J=2.978(1)$; $k_B{T}_t/J=0.439(1)$) and (${\Delta }_t/J=3.949(1)$; $k_B{T}_t/J=0.854(1)$) for the simple cubic and the body-centered cubic lattices, respectively. A very strong supercritical slowing down and hysteresis were observed in the Metropolis update close to first-order transitions for $\Delta >{\Delta }_t$. In addition, for both lattices we found a line of compensation points, where the two sublattice magnetizations have the same magnitude. We show that the compensation lines are also spin-independent.

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