Absence of long-range order in a general spin-S kagome lattice Ising antiferromagnet
Abstract
The possibility of the emergence of some kind of long-range ordering (LRO) due to the increase of multiplicity of the local degrees of freedom (spin value S) is studied in an Ising antiferromagnet on a kagome lattice (IAKL) by Monte Carlo simulation. In particular, the critical exponent of the spin correlation function, obtained from a finite-size scaling analysis, is evaluated for various values of S, including S=∞, with the goal to determine whether there exists some threshold value of the spin SC above which the system would show true or quasi-LRO, similar to a related model on a triangular lattice (IATL). It is found that, unlike in the IATL case, the IAKL model remains disordered for any spin value and any finite temperature.
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