1ST-ORDER TRANSITION IN THE HEXAGONAL-CLOSE-PACKED LATTICE WITH VECTOR SPINS

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DIEP, HT
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[1] Laboratoire de Magnétisme des Surfaces, Université Paris 7, 75251 Paris CEDEX 05
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10.1103/PhysRevB.45.2863
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T [工业技术];
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By extensive Monte Carlo simulations, we show that the magnetic phase transition is of first order in the hexagonal-close-packed lattice with vector (XY and Heisenberg) spins interacting via isotropic antiferromagnetic nearest-neighbor bonds. Despite the infinite ground-state degeneracy, the system is shown to retain only the collinear spin configurations at finite temperature, in agreement with a theoretical conjecture.
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