* [email protected] 4 96 2001 The Moroccan Statistical Physical and Condensed Matter Society Bond diluted surface phase diagrams of the transverse Ising model
L. Khaya1, N. Benayad1,* and A. Dakhama1,2
1 Groupe de Mécanique Statistique, Laboratoire de Physique Théorique, Faculté des Sciences Aïn Chock, B.P.
5366 Maarif, Casablanca, Morocco.
2 Department of Physics Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA.
The effects of diluted surface on the phase diagram of the transverse Ising spin model is studied by the use of an effective field method within the framework of single-site cluster theory. The state equations are derived using the differential operator technique. The complete phase diagrams are investigated when the exchange interactions
J
ijS at the surface, is randomly distributed.J
ijSis in competition with the bulk interactions. In particular, the influence of the surface transverse field and the dilution parameter on the three-dimensional transverse Ising model is examined in detail.PACS : 05.50.+q ; 75.10.Hk I. INTRODUCTION
The problems related to the nature of phase transitions at surfaces of magnetic materials generated considerable interest both theoretically and experimentally1,2.One of the simplest three dimensional semi-infinte models is the spin- 1/2 simple cubic lattice Ising ferromagnet with a free (1,0,0) surface. It has been extensively studied using a variety of approximations and mathematical techniques . Such as mean-field theory3,4, cluster variation method5, effective field theory6, finite cluster approximation7,8, renormalization group methods8-12, Monte Carlo techniques13,14 and series expansions15. The standard example is the semi-infinite cubic ferromagnetic Ising model in which the spins on the surface interact among one another with an exchange parameter
J
S different from the bulk exchange JB. It exhibits different types of phase transitions associated with surface. If the ratio R=JS/JB is greater than a critical value RC, the system may order on the surface before it orders in the bulk. The system exhibits two successive transitions, namely the surface and extraordinary transitions, as the temperature is lowered. If R is less than RC, the system becomes ordered at the bulk transition temperature. This is the ordinary phase transition.If R=RC, the system orders at the bulk transition temperature but in this case the critical exponents differ from those of ordinary transition. This is the special phase transition.
The simple cubic Ising ferromagnet with a ferromagnetic exchange interaction (JB>0) in the bulk and an antiferromagnetic exchange interaction (
J
S <0) between surface spins has been studied using mean-field approximation15, renormalization group method16, and Monte Calro simulation (MC)17,18. In this case the surface layer behaves roughly like an Ising antiferromagnet in a (temperature-dependent) field. Below the bulk critical temperature, the bulk is ordered ferromagnetically for allJ
S . ForJ
S less than some temperature dependent value of surface exchange, the surface is also in an ordered ferromagntic state, but for large negative values, the surface is antiferromagnetic instead. As the temperature increases, the bulk disorders, but for strongly negativeJ
Sthe surface remains ordered up to some higher temperature.
The phase boundaries for the bulk and the surface transitions cross at a tetracritical point.
The transverse Ising model (TIM) is a system originally introduced by De Gennes19 as a valuable model for the tunnelling of the proton in hydrogen-bonded ferroelectrics20 type. Since then, it has been successfully applied to several physical systems, such as co-operative Jahn-Teller systems21,ordering in rare earth compounds with a singled crystal-field ground state22 and also to some real magnetic materials with strong uniaxial anisotropy in transverse field23. It has been extensively studied by the use of various techniques24-28, including the effective field treatment29,30 based on a generalized but approximated Callen-Suzuki relation derived by Sà Barreto, Fittipaldi and Zeks. The system shows a phase transition somewhat different from the usual Ising model case in two or more dimensions. It presents a finite-temperature phase transition which can be depressed to zero by increasing the transverse field to a certain critical value. Using the effective field theory31, similar transition have been fund for three- dimensional semi-infinite spin-1/2 ferromagnetic Ising model in the random transverse field.
In this paper, we are interested in the study of surface phase transitions in the spin-1/2 transverse Ising ferromagnet with a diluted antiferromagnetic surface. The purpose is to describe the phase diagrams of the system, by the use of an effective field method based on differential operator technique within the framework of a single-site cluster theory. We focus our attention on the effects of the
transverse fields and the surface random bond concentration on the phase transitions associated with the surface.
Our presentation is as follows. In section II, we review the basic points of the effective-field theory with correlations (EFT) as applied to the present model. In section III, the phase diagrams of the system as a function of the transverse field and surface random bond are examined and discussed. Finally, we comment on our results in section ΙV .
II. THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK We consider a semi-infinite surface bond-diluted Ising model in transverse field which is described by the following Hamiltonian.
H Jij iz jz
ij S ix
i S B ix
i S
= −
∑
−∑
−∑
∈ ∉
σ σ Ω σ Ω σ
(1) Whereσ
iα( α = x , z )
is component of spin-1/2 operator at site i.Ω
B and ΩS represent transverse fields in the bulk and at the surface, respectively. Jij is the nearest-neighbour exchange interaction between spins at sites i and j, that takes the valueJ
ijSif both spins lie on the surface and JB(JB>0) otherwise.
J
ijS obey to the following distribution.( ) ( ) ( ) ( )
Q J
ijS= p
Sδ J
ijS+ J
S+ − 1 p
Sδ J
ijS , (2) where JS>0 and the parameter pS measures the concentration of antiferromagntic bonds.The theoretical framework we adopt in the study of the system described by the Hamiltonian (1), is the effective- field theory based on single-site cluster theory. In this approach, attention is focused on a cluster consisting of just a single selected spin, labelled o, and the neighbouring spins with which it directly interacts. To this end, the total Hamiltonian is split in two parts,
H = H
o+ H ′
, whereH
oincludes all those terms ofH
associated with the lattice site o, namelyHo Joj jz
j oz
ox
= −
−
∑ σ σ Ω
θσ
, (3) with θ ≡ S or B whether the lattice site o belongs to the surface or to the bulk, respectively. The problem consists in evaluating the longitudinal and transverse site magnetizations. The starting point of our calculation will be a generalised, but approximate, Callen-Suzuki relation32,33.( )
[ ]
( )
[
o]
o
o o
o
o trace H
H O
trace
O β
β
−
= −
exp ˆ exp
ˆ , (4)
derived by Sà barreto et al.29 for the transverse Ising model.
traceo means the partial trace with respect to the site o.
...
indicates the canonical thermal average andT k
B= 1
β
. As pointed out by those authors, this relation is not exact sinceH
oandH ′
do not commute.Nevertheless, they have been successfully applied to a number of interesting transverse Ising systems. We emphasize that in the limit
Ω
θ= 0
(θ ≡ S or B) the hamiltonian contains onlyσ
iz. Then, relation (4) becomes exact identity. The application of (4) for the longitudinal and transverse site magnetizations of the nth layer, leads to the following expressions.
=
oo z
on
E
E A
tanh 2 2
σ β
, (5)σ
θβ
onx
o o
E E
=
Ω
2 tanh 2
, (6) withz j j
Joj
A=
∑
σ , (7)[ ( ) ]
E
o= Ω
θ 2+ A
2 1 2/ . (8) Introducing the differential operator technique34, (5) and (6) can be written as followsonz
e
AF ( ) x
x o=
=
∇ θσ
, (9)( )
x o Ax
on
e G x
=
=
∇ θσ
, (10) where∇ = ∂ ∂ x
is a differential operator ( defined as( ) ( x F x A )
F
e
A∇= +
) and functionsF
θ( ) x
and( ) x
G
θ are defined b( ) [ ( ) ] [ ( ) ]
F x x
x
θ x
θ
β θ
=
+ +
2 2 2 1 2 2
2 2 1 2
Ω / tanh Ω / , (11)
( ) [ ( ) ] [ ( ) ]
G x
x
θ θ x
θ
θ
= β
+ +
Ω
Ω Ω
2 2 2 1 2 2
2 2 1 2
/
tanh / . (12)
By assuming the statistical independence of the lattice sites, that is
σ
i, σ
j,..., σ
l≈ σ
iσ
j... σ
l and using the spin-1/2 identity( )
+
=
sinh 2 2 2
cosh
expλσi λ σi λ , (9) and (10) may
be written as follows
( )
σonz oj σjz oj θ
j x o
J J
= ∇ F x
+ ∇
×
∏
=
cosh sinh
2 2
2 , (13)
( )
σonx oj σ θ
jz oj
j x o
J J
= ∇ G x
+ ∇
×
∏
=
cosh sinh
2 2
2 . (14) Since the surface exchange interactions are randomly distributed, we have to perform the random average of
J
ojS according to the probability distribution function( )
JijSQ given by (2) when the lattice site o belongs to the surface
( n ≡ S )
. The surface ordering parametersµ
Szand
µ
Sxare then defined asµ
Szσ
oSz
=
andµ
Sxσ
oSz
=
, where the bar denotes the random bond average.Therefore, the surface longitudinal magnetization
µ
Sz per site and the magnetizationµ
nz of the nth layer are given by-For the surface
( n ≡ S )
( ) [ ( ) ] [ ( ) ] ( )
( ) [ ( ) ] [ ( ) ] ( )
µ µ µ
µ µ µ
Sz
S Sz
S B z
B S
x o
Sz
S Sz
S B z
B S
x o
a b a b F x
a b a b F x
1 2
4
1 2
2 1
4
1 1
2 2
2 2
= + × +
= + × +
=
=
, (15)
-For the first layer
( ) [ ( ) ] [ ( ) ] [ ( ) ] ( )
( ) [ ( ) ] [ ( ) ] [ ( ) ] ( )
µ µ µ µ
µ µ µ µ
1 1 2 1 2
4
2 2
1 2 1 1 1
4
2 1
2 2 2
2 2 2
z B Sz
B B z
B B z
B B x o
z B Sz
B B z
B B z
B B x o
a b a b a b F x
a b a b a b F x
= + × + × +
= + × + × +
=
=
,(16)
-For any layer n≥2
( ) [ ( ) ] [ ( ) ] [ ( ) ]
( )( ) [ ( ) ] [ ( ) ] [ ( ) ]
( )µ µ µ µ
µ µ µ µ
nz
B nz
B B nz
B B nz
B B x o
nz
B nz
B B nz
B B nz
B B x o
a b a b a b F x
a b a b a b F x
1 1 2 2
4
1 2
2 1 1 1
4
1 1
2 2 2
2 2 2
= + × + × +
= + × + × +
− +
=
− +
=
.(17)
where
( )
a p J
p b p J
S S S
S S S S
= ∇
+ − = − ∇
cosh , sinh
2 1
2
a J
b J
B B
B B
= ∇
= ∇
cosh , sinh
2 2
( ) µ
nz 1and( ) µ
nz 2indicate the two-sublattice longitudinal magnetizations of the nth layer, respectively. We note that the bulk longitudinal magnetizationµ
Bzis determined by settingµ
nzµ µ
nz nz
−1
= =
+1 in (17). Thus,µ
Bzis solution of the equation[ ] ( )
µ
Bzµ
B Bz
B B
a b F x
x o= +
2
6 = . (18)III. PHASE DIAGRAMS AND DISCUSSIONS In order to investigate the phase diagrams of the system described by the Hamiltonian (1), we have to solve the
coupled eqs (15)-(17). However, we are unable to solve them analytically. Even if we use a numerical method, they must be terminated at a certain layer. Note that as n goes to infinity, the magnetization
µ
nz should approach the bulk valueµ
Bz. For this purpose, let usassume that the magnetizations remain unaltered after the third layer i.e.
z B z
z
µ µ
µ
3=
4= ... =
,which may be called the four-layer approximation.
We are first concerned with evaluation of the order- disorder transition temperatures for the bulk and surface ordering based on the four-layer approximation. From (18), the bulk critical temperature
k T
B c
J
B is solution of the equation
( )
1 12 = a b F x
5B B B x o= . (19) In order to obtain the surface order-disorder critical temperature, we have to linearize (15)- (17). Thus, neglecting high-order terms in magnetization near the critical temperature, and within the four-layer approximation, we obtain( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( )
µ µ µ
µ µ µ
Sz
Sz z
Sz
Sz z
A A
A A
1 1 2 2 1 2
2 1 1 2 1 1
= +
= +
, (20)
( ) ( ( ) ( ) ( ) )
( ) ( ( ) ( ) ( ) )
µ µ µ µ
µ µ µ µ
1 1 1 2 1 2 2 2
1 2 1 1 1 1 2 1
4 4
z
Sz z z
z Sz z z
B B
= + +
= + +
, (21)
( ) ( ( ) ( ) ( ) )
( ) ( ( ) ( ) ( ) )
µ µ µ µ
µ µ µ µ
2 1 1 1 2 2 2 2
2 2 1 1 1 2 1 1
4 4
z z z
Bz
z z z
Bz
B B
= + +
= + +
. (22)
The coefficients A1,A2 and B1 are given by
( ) ( ) ( ) A a b a F x A a b F x B a b F x
S S B S x o
S B B x o
B B B x o
1 3
2 4
1 5
8 2 2
=
=
=
=
=
=
. (23)
Therefore, the critical ordering frontiers ( when the bulk is disordered ) are analytically obtained through a determinantal equation. In Figs.1 and 2, we represent the
critical line of antiferromagnetic-paramagnetic surface transitions (S). the steps described before are not sufficient to obtain the remaining part of the phase diagram. In fact, the three dimensional ferromagnet with antiferromagnetic surface, any two nearest neighbours of the surface interact via an antiferromagntic coupling. At the ground state of the Hamiltonian (1) ( with
p
s= 1 , Ω
S= Ω
B= 0
), thesurface makes a first-order transition from an antiferromagnetically order state for R > 1/4 to a ferromagnetically ordered state for R<1/4. In order to obtain to rest of phases and transitions, we must to solve numerically the couple equations (15)-(17) within the four- layer approximation scheme. The analysis of the above equations permits us to determine the whole phase diagrams of the system. Indeed, let us first examine the effect of the surface transverse field on the surface ordering in the pure three-dimensional semi-infinite transverse Ising model. The phase diagrams, in the (KB T / JB , JS /JB) plane is represented in Fig.1 for two selected values of the bulk transverse field ( ΩB = 0, ΩB =1.5 JB). It shows the influence of ΩS on the surface transitions. If the ratio R is greater than a critical value Rc , the surface may order antiferromagnetically at a temperature higher than the bulk.
We mention that surface transition temperature and Rc
depend on the value of ΩS .
0.00 2.00 4.00 6.00
0.00 1.00 2.00 3.00 4.00 5.00
KBT/JB
JS/JB PS=1.
ΩS/JS =0.
0.5
1.
1.3 ΩB/JB =1.5
ΩB/JB =0.
BP SP
BF SF
(O) (Sp) (L)
(S) (S)
(S)
(S)
(E)
BF SAF
BP SAF
FIG.1. The phase diagram in (KB T / JB , JS /JB) plane, in the case of pure system (ps=1) , with ΩB / JB = 0 (solid lines) and ΩB / JB = 1.5 (dashed lines). The number accompanying each curve denotes the value of ΩS / JS. In Fig.2, we show the effects of diluted surface on the pure system behaviour (P S = 1).
0.00 2.00 4.00 6.00
0.00 1.00 2.00 3.00 4.00 5.00
KBT/JB
JS/JB 0.8
0.6 PS=1.
0.42 0.65
0.58 ΩS/JS =0.5
ΩS/JS =0.
BP SP
(O) (Sp) BF
SF (L)
(S) (S)
(S)
(E) SAFBP
SAFBF
ΩB/JB =0.
FIG.2. The phase diagram in (KB T / JB , JS /JB) plane, with ΩS / JS = 0, ΩB / JB = 0 (solid lines) and ΩS /JS= 0.5, ΩB / JB = 0 (dashed lines). The number accompanying each curve denotes the value of ps.
Thus, some surface transition lines corresponding to various values of pS are plotted. As clearly seen from the obtained phase diagrams, we note that for a given value of ΩS and the ratio R = JS / JB ( greater than 1/4), the surface critical temperature decreases with pS , and therefore, the domain where the surface is ordered becomes less an less large when the concentration of the antiferromagnetic bonds decreases. As shown in Figs.1 and 2, four physically different phases are identified. These phases are indicated on the phase diagrams by the following symbols.
SF , BF: surface and bulk are ferromagnetic; SP,BP:
surface and bulk are paramagnetic; SAF , BP: Surface antiferromagnetic and bulk paramagnetic; SAF , BF:
Surface antiferromagnetic and bulk ferromagnetic. For the system under study, we extend the accepted terminology used in the classical semi-infinite Ising systems with no competing interaction3,15,4,35. As is seen from Figs.1 and 2, the above phases are separated by different transition lines.
Among them, we find all critical lines obtained in the semi- infinite simple cubic ferromagnetic Ising model8,14,15. They correspond to the surface (S), the ordinary (O), the extraordinary (E), special (Sp). When the bulk is ferromagnetically ordered, the surface exhibits, at finite temperature, a second-order transition (L) from the ferromagnetic phase (SF,BF) to the antiferromagnetic
phase (BF,SAF). Moreover, we note the existence of critical value
p
∗S ofp
S (p
S∗=0.424) which depends on the surface transverse field strength. For pc<p
S≤p
∗S(pc=0.393 is the percolation threshold), the (SAF,BP) phase disappear for any value of R. In Fig.3, we present
the critical ratio
R
c as a function ofp
S whenB
B
J
Ω
=0 and 1.5 for different values of ΩS / JS.0.0 0.4
0.8 0.0
10.0
(J
S/J
B)
cPs
ΩS/JS =0.
0.5
1.
1.3
ΩB/JB =0 ΩB/JB =1.5
FIG.3. The dependence of the critical ratio of exchange interactions (JS / JB)C as a function of the surface dilution parameter
p
S, with Ω B / J B = 0 (solid lines) and Ω B / J B = 1.5 ( dashed lines). The number accompanying each curve denotes the value of ΩS / JS, . We notice that for a given value of ΩS / JS, andp
Sclose to 1, the critical ratio R C= (JS / JB)C increases weakly with decreasing
p
S ; while it varies rapidly withp
S when this latter approaches top
∗S. As seen from this figure, there is no critical exchange interaction strength ratioR
c, whenp
S≤p
∗S. This means that there isno surface , extraordinary and special transition and therefore the phase (SAF,BP) disappears. The dependence of the critical value∗
p
S with the surface transverse field is presented in Fig 4 As it can be expected, the critical valuep
∗S decreases with increasingΩ
SJ
S . It is worthy of notice here that the variation ofp
S∗ withΩ
SJ
S is nearly independ of the bulk transverse field.IV. CONCLUSION
In this work, we have studied the surface phase transitions in semi-infinite spin-1/2 transverse Ising
model, where the antiferromagnetic exchange interactions at the surface is randomly distributed and having aconcentration ps. The competing surface and bulk exchange interactions are denoted by JS and JB ,
0.0 0.5 1.0 1.5
0.4
0.6
0.8
1.0 (Ps)*
ΩS/JS
ΩB/JB =1 ΩB/JB =0
FIG.4. The variation of critical value
p
S∗ with the surface transverse field ΩS / JS, with Ω B / J B = 0 (solid line) and Ω B / J B =1respectively. To do this, we have used an effective field method within the framework of a single-site cluster theory.
Let us summarize by stating the main results of this investigation. We identified four physically different phases. When the bulk is disordered (BP), if the ratio
(
JS JB)
R= is greater than a critical value
R
c, the surface may antiferromagntically order at a temperature higher than bulk. When the bulk is ferromagnetically ordered (BF), the surface may undergo, at finite temperature, second-order transition (L) from ferromagnetic order (SF) to the antiferromagnetic one (SAF).Finally, the effects of the surface transverse field, and the dilution parameter on the surface ordering have been investigated and some characteristic behaviours for the surface have been found. In particular, the existence of critical value
p
S∗ ofp
S, indicating two qualitativelydifferent behaviour of the surface which depend on the range of
p
S. Thus forp
S∗<p
S≤1, the system exhibits five different phase transitions cited in section III. But forp
c< p
S< p
S* , the phase where the surface antiferromagnetic and bulk paramagnetic disappears for any value of the ratio R ; which means that theextraordinary phase transition does not exist in this range of
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