Abstract
We present a finite-size-scaling study of a two-dimensional square-lattice-gas model with nearest-neighbor repulsion and next-nearest-neighbor attraction. This system may be used as a simplified model of adsorbates on transition-metal (100) surfaces. An accurate determination of the tricritical temperature is obtained by the utilization of the degeneracy of the three largest eigenvalues of the transfer matrix at a tricritical point. We obtain the phase diagram and critical and tricritical exponents, all quite consistent with previously known results. We also find that a recent conjecture relating the critical exponent to the correlation-length amplitude seems to work well even at the tricritical point.
- Received 16 December 1982
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.28.2686
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