Nature of a phase transition and low-temperature phase in cubic ferromagnets

J. Sznajd and M. Dudziński
Phys. Rev. B 59, 4176 – Published 1 February 1999
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Abstract

A S=2 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 (n=3)-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

©1999 American Physical Society

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J. Sznajd and M. Dudziński

  • Institute of Low Temperature and Structure Research, Polish Academy of Sciences, 50-950 Wrocław, Poland

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Vol. 59, Iss. 6 — 1 February 1999

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