Phase transition induced for external field in tree-dimensional isotropic Heisenberg antiferromagnet

Abstract

In this paper, we report mean-field and effective-field renormalization group calculations on the isotropic Heisenberg antiferromagnetic model under a longitudinal magnetic field. As is already known, these methods, denoted by MFRG and EFRG, are based on the comparison of two clusters of different sizes, each of them trying to mimic certain Bravais lattice. Our attention has been on the obtantion of the critical frontier in the plane of temperature versus magnetic field, for the simple cubic and the body-centered cubic lattices. We used clusters with $N=1,2,4$ spins so as to implement MFRG-12, EFRG-12 and EFRG-24 numerical equations. Consequently, the resulting frontier lines show that EFRG approach overcomes the MFRG problems when clusters of larger sizes are considered.