Magnetic Properties and Critical and Compensation Temperatures in Mixed Spin-1/2–Spin-1 Ferrimagnetic-Centered Rectangular Structure Using Monte Carlo Simulation

Abstract

The Monte Carlo simulation has been used to investigate the magnetic properties of a mixed spin-1 (sublattice A) and spin-1/2 (sublattice B), where each sublattice has a rectangular structure and the whole lattice system forms a 2-D centered rectangular lattice. Five possible interactions are considered. Namely, two S–S interactions and two $\sigma $ – $\sigma $ interactions depend on crystal direction, and an antiferromagnetic interaction between the two sublattices is taken. Our results show that the critical temperature increases with increasing the variation of any exchange interactions. The existence of the compensation temperature depends on the balance between the S–S interactions along [10] and $\sigma $ – $\sigma $ interactions along [01] directions.