https://doi.org/10.1140/epjb/s10051-024-00767-4
Regular Article - Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
Critical and reentrant phenomena in the Blume–Emery–Griffiths model with attractive biquadratic interaction
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LS2ME Laboratory, Polydisciplinary Faculty of Khouribga, Sultan Moulay Slimane University, B.P. 145, 25000, Beni Mellal, Khouribga, Morocco
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Theoretical Physics Team, Laboratory L.P.M.C., Faculty of Sciences, Chouaib Doukkali University, El Jadida, Morocco
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Higher School of Education and Training (ESEF), Chouaib Doukkali University, El Jadida, Morocco
Received:
6
May
2024
Accepted:
9
August
2024
Published online:
24
August
2024
Using the mean field approximation based on the Bogoliubov inequality for free energy, we investigate the effects of the biquadratic exchange interaction on the critical behavior and phase diagram of the mixed spin (1,2) Blume–Emery–Griffiths model. We first focus on a specific case of the model: when the interaction parameter 
, corresponding to the Blume–Capel model. For the attractive Blume–Emery–Griffiths model, we present the phase diagram in the temperature-crystal field plane. The phase diagram is significantly influenced by the value of the biquadratic exchange interaction K. For small values of K, similar to the Blume–Capel model, the phase diagram exhibits first and second order phase transition lines separating ordered and disordered phases, with a tricritical point marking the boundary between these regions. As K increases, the phase diagram changes significantly, with the appearance of reentrant and double reentrant phenomena.
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