Document Type

Article

Date of Original Version

1971

Abstract

Work on the Ising chain with competing interactions is extended to the case where a staggered field is included as well as the usual direct field. A simple transformation enables one to interpret the behavior of this model as a metamagnet. Tricritical points are found and analyzed, and the observability of the tricritical exponents, as distinguished from the usual critical exponents, is discussed.

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Copyright (1971) American Institute of Physics. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the American Institute of Physics.


The following article appeared in (Journal of Chemical Physics) and may be found at (http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/journal/jcp?ver=pdfcov).

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