Benyoussef, A.; Ez-Zahraouy, H.; Mahboub, H.; Ouazzani, M.J. - In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications 326 (2003) 1, pp. 220-232
The effect of the transverse field Ω on bulk melting and layering sublimation transitions of a spin-1 Blume–Emery–Griffiths (BEG) model is studied using the mean field theory. It is found that there exists a critical value of the transverse field Ωl above which a sequence of layering...