Finite Temperature Phase Diagrams of the Mixed Spin-1 and Spin-2 Blume–Capel Model by Renormalization Group Approach

Abstract

The Blume–Capel model with mixed spins S = 1 and S = 2, on d-dimensional hypercubic lattice, is studied using the real space renormalization group approximation and specifically the Migdal–Kadanoff technique. We give the phase diagrams on the (Δ1/|J|, 1/|J|) and (Δ2/|J|, 1/|J|) planes which are studied for selected values of Δ2/|J| and Δ1/|J| respectively, with first and second order phase transitions and tricritical points. Also, the associated fixed points are drawn up in a table, and by linearizing the transformation at the vicinity of these points, we determine the critical exponents for d = 2 and d = 3. In particular, we find that the system under study may exhibit reentrant phenomenon.