Phase Diagrams of Spin-3/2 Ising Model on a Square Lattice in Terms of Corner Transfer Matrix Renormalization Group Method

Abstract

We obtain phase diagrams of a spin-3/2 Ising model on a square lattice by using a corner transfer matrix renormalization group method. We find that three phases appear in the phase diagrams; they are the ferromagnetic(FM) phase, the paramagnetic(PM) phase and a ferrimagnetic(FI) phase. It turns out that a tricritical point appears in a region of space spanned by parameters of coupling constants and the temperature. We estimate values of critical exponent ν and α at a transition temperature between the FM phase and the PM phase, at that between the FI phase and the FM phase, and also at that between the FI phase and the PM phase, by using the finite size scaling analysis.