https://doi.org/10.1140/epjb/s10051-025-01091-1
Research - Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
Compensation in trilayered anisotropic 6-state clock model
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Department of Physics of Complex Systems, S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, 700106, Kolkata, India
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Department of Physics, Presidency University, 86/1 College Street, 700073, Kolkata, India
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muktish.physics@presiuniv.ac.in
Received:
17
September
2025
Accepted:
10
November
2025
Published online:
18
November
2025
The equilibrium behaviours of a trilayered 6-state clock model have been investigated by Monte Carlo simulation. The intralayer interaction is considered ferromagnetic, whereas the interlayer interaction is antiferromagnetic. Periodic boundary conditions (PBC) are applied in XY plane and open boundary condition (OBC) is applied along Z-direction. The thermodynamic behaviours of sublattice magnetisation, total magnetisation, magnetic susceptibility and the specific heat are studied as functions of the temperature. The interesting compensation phenomenon, when the total magnetisation vanishes keeping the nonzero sublattice magnetisations, has been observed. The compensation temperature and the critical temperature are found to depend on the strength of single-site anisotropy. The comprehensive phase diagram is shown in the temperature-anisotropy plane. The larger systems show the growth of the height of the peak of the susceptibility near the critical temperature.
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