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We performed a detailed Landau expansion of the free energy for a metamagnetic model considering terms up to twelfth order. We obtained explicit expressions for the coefficients as a function of the temperature and the ratio between ferro- and antiferromagnetic interactions. We showed that a naive analysis based on the signs of these coefficients cannot always give us sufficient guarantee about the correctness of the phase diagram of the model. In these cases it is necessary to resort to the full expression of the free energy in order to characterize the nature of the phase transition.
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Moreira, A., Figueiredo, W. & Henriques, V. Landau expansion for a metamagnetic model. Eur. Phys. J. B 27, 153–159 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjb/e20020140
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1140/epjb/e20020140