Study of critical properties of the frustrated antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model on a triangular lattice

Abstract

The replica Monte Carlo method has been applied to study critical properties of the three-dimensional frustrated antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model on a layered triangular lattice. Magnetic and chiral critical exponents for this model have been calculated within the finite-size scaling theory. The data for this model have been analyzed for the first time taking into account corrections to scaling. It has been shown that the critical behavior of the frustrated antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model on the triangular lattice differs from the critical behavior of the pure Heisenberg model and is independent of the type of interlayer exchange interaction.