Finite size analysis of a two-dimensional Ising model within a nonextensive approach

TL;DR

This study investigates phase transitions in a 2D Ising model using nonextensive Tsallis statistics, revealing how critical exponents vary with the entropic index and indicating nonuniversal critical behavior.

Contribution

It provides a detailed finite-size analysis of the 2D Ising model within a nonextensive framework, showing the dependence of critical exponents on the entropic index q.

Findings

Critical exponents α, β, γ depend on q for 0.5<q≤1.0.

Critical exponent ν remains independent of q.

Violation of classical scaling relations observed.

Abstract

In this work we present a thorough analysis of the phase transitions that occur in a ferromagnetic 2D Ising model, with only nearest-neighbors interactions, in the framework of the Tsallis nonextensive statistics. We performed Monte Carlo simulations on square lattices with linear sizes L ranging from 32 up to 512. The statistical weight of the Metropolis algorithm was changed according to the nonextensive statistics. Discontinuities in the m(T) curve are observed for $q\leq 0.5$. However, we have verified only one peak on the energy histograms at the critical temperatures, indicating the occurrence of continuous phase transitions. For the $0.5<q\leq 1.0$ regime, we have found continuous phase transitions between the ordered and the disordered phases, and determined the critical exponents via finite-size scaling. We verified that the critical exponents $\alpha $, $\beta $ and $\gamma $ depend on the entropic index $q$ in the range $0.5<q\leq 1.0$ in the form $\alpha (q)=(10 q^{2}-33 q+23)/20$, $\beta (q)=(2 q-1)/8$ and $\gamma (q)=(q^{2}-q+7)/4$. On the other hand, the critical exponent $\nu $ does not depend on $q$. This suggests a violation of the scaling relations $2 \beta +\gamma =d \nu $ and $\alpha +2 \beta +\gamma =2$ and a nonuniversality of the critical exponents along the ferro-paramagnetic frontier.