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Wang-Landau study of the triangular Blume-Capel ferromagnet

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We report on numerical simulations of the two-dimensional Blume-Capel ferromagnet embedded in the triangular lattice. The model is studied in both its first- and second-order phase transition regime for several values of the crystal field via a sophisticated two-stage numerical strategy using the Wang-Landau algorithm. Using classical finite-size scaling techniques we estimate with high accuracy phase-transition temperatures, thermal, and magnetic critical exponents and we give an approximation of the phase diagram of the model.

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Fytas, N. Wang-Landau study of the triangular Blume-Capel ferromagnet. Eur. Phys. J. B 79, 21–28 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjb/e2010-10738-y

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