A simulation of the mixed spin 3–spin 3/2 ferrimagnetic Ising model

Abstract

The mixed spin 3–spin 3/2 ferrimagnetic Ising model was simulated using cooling algorithm on cellular automaton (CA). The simulations were carried out in the intervals −4 ≤ DA/J ≤ 8 and −4 ≤ DB/J ≤ 8 for the square lattices with periodic boundary conditions. The ground-state phase diagram of the model has different types of ferrimagnetic phases. Although only the antiferromagnetic nearest-neighbor interaction was contained in the Hamiltonian, the compensation points emerged through DA/J = 2 at kT/J = 0. The values of the critical exponents (ν, α , β and γ) were estimated within the framework of the finite-size scaling theory and power-law relations for the selected DA/J values (−2, 0, 1, 2, and 4). The estimated critical exponent values were in good agreement with the universal values of the two-dimensional Ising model (ν = 1, α = α′ = 0, β = 0.125, β′ = 0.875 and γ = γ′ = 1.75).