{
  "id": "0911.3846",
  "version": "v2",
  "published": "2009-11-19T18:11:24.000Z",
  "updated": "2010-05-14T16:36:10.000Z",
  "title": "Monte Carlo Study of the Axial Next-Nearest-Neighbor Ising Model",
  "authors": [
    "Kai Zhang",
    "Patrick Charbonneau"
  ],
  "comment": "4 pages, 3 figures",
  "journal": "Physical Review Letters 104,195703, 2010",
  "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.195703",
  "categories": [
    "cond-mat.stat-mech",
    "cond-mat.soft"
  ],
  "abstract": "The equilibrium phase behavior of microphase-forming substances and models is notoriously difficult to obtain because of the extended metastability of the modulated phases. We develop a simulation method based on thermodynamic integration that avoids this problem and with which we obtain the phase diagram of the canonical three-dimensional axial next-nearest-neighbor Ising model. The equilibrium devil's staircase, magnetization, and susceptibility are obtained. The critical exponents confirm the XY nature of the disorder-modulated phase transition beyond the Lifshitz point. The results identify the limitations of various approximation schemes used to analyze this basic microphase-forming model.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v2",
      "updated": "2010-05-14T16:36:10.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "subjects": [
      "64.60.Cn",
      "05.10.Ln",
      "64.60.F-",
      "75.10.-b"
    ],
    "keywords": [
      "monte carlo study",
      "three-dimensional axial next-nearest-neighbor ising model",
      "equilibrium devils staircase",
      "equilibrium phase behavior",
      "canonical three-dimensional axial next-nearest-neighbor"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "publisher": "APS",
      "journal": "Physical Review Letters",
      "year": 2010,
      "month": "May",
      "volume": 104,
      "number": 19,
      "pages": 195703
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 4,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "adsabs": "2010PhRvL.104s5703Z"
    }
  }
}