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E Lomba1, N G Almarza, C Martín
1Instituto de Química Física Rocasolano, CSIC, Serrano 119, Madrid, Spain.
Abstract:
In this work we investigate the phase behavior of a family of continuous bidimensional n -vector models (with n=2, 3, and 4) using Monte Carlo simulation. In all cases we detect the presence of a defect mediated order-disorder transition of the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless type with critical temperatures that decrease with the spin dimensionality. Coupled with the order-disorder transition a gas-liquid equilibrium is found at low temperatures. Here one observes that the stability region of the liquid phase shrinks with the growing spin dimensionality, in parallel with a decrease in magnitude of the angular averaged spin-spin interaction.
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