Monte Carlo simulations of the magnetic properties of a site-disordered Blume Capel multilayer spin-1 system

Authors

Department of physics, Faculty of Sciences, Laboratory of Automatics, University of Tlemcen, BP119, Algeria
Department of physics, Faculty of Sciences, Laboratory of Theoretical Physics, University of Tlemcen, BP119, Algeria
Department of physics, Faculty of Sciences, Laboratory of Condensed Matter and Interdisciplinary Sciences (LaMCScl), Mohammed V University of Rabat, P. O. Box 1014, Morocco

Abstract

We used standard Monte Carlo simulations to investigate the magnetic properties of a spin-1 Ising multilayer
system composed of two non-equivalent planes A and B, where B being site-diluted. Antiferromagnetic interlayer
and ferromagnetic intralayer spin couplings have been considered. Our calculations indicated the occurrence of
a compensation phenomenon where the magnetization vanishes before the critical temperature. The effects of
various model parameters on the system magnetic properties have been examined in detail and presented in
the form of phase diagrams. The results bore some resemblance with those reported in some previous works
on systems with or without site-dilution. Depending on values of the spin concentration parameterP the model
displayed first- and second-order phase boundaries with the existence of a tricritical point.