Comment on “Static and dynamic simulation in the classical two-dimensional anisotropic Heisenberg model”

Abstract

Costa and Costa [Phys. Rev B 54, 994 (1996)] studied vortices in a two-dimensional easy-plane anisotropic ferromagnetic model. They found different vortex behaviors depending on whether the anisotropy parameter $\ensuremath{\lambda}$ is less than or greater than a critical value ${\ensuremath{\lambda}}_{c},$ reproducing well-known results [Phys. Rev. B 39, 11 840 (1989)]. They claim that the out-of-plane dynamic correlation function ${S}^{\mathrm{zz}}(\mathbf{q},\ensuremath{\omega})$ exhibits a central peak only for $\ensuremath{\lambda}>{\ensuremath{\lambda}}_{c},$ where the static vortices are of the out-of-plane form, but not for $\ensuremath{\lambda}<{\ensuremath{\lambda}}_{c},$ where the static vortices are planar. However, their data are physically inaccurate for such a conclusion.