Abstract
A ferromagnet with a crystalline field of the cubic symmetry is studied. It is shown that in the case of the three easy axes [100] the model which contains only the Heisenberg bilinear interaction and single-ion anisotropy terms exhibits at a finite temperature the phase transition to a nonmagnetic phase with a long-range quadrupolar order. It is also pointed out if the recent result that in three dimensions the cubic fixed point is stable for the -component cubic spin model (Kleinert, Thoms, and Schulte-Frohlinde) is correct, all cubic ferromagnets with three easy axes, for example Fe, should undergo a first-order (discontinuous) phase transition.
- Received 18 August 1998
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.59.4176
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