Monte Carlo Study of Phase Separation in Magnetic Insulators

In this work we focus on the study of phase separation in the zero-bandwidth extended Hubbard with nearest-neighbors intersite Ising-like magnetic interactions J and on-site Coulomb interactions U. The system has been analyzed by means of the Monte Carlo simulations (in the grand canonical ensemble) on two-dimensional square lattice (with N = L × L = 400 sites) and the results for U/(4J) = 2 as a function of chemical potential and electron concentration have been obtained. Depending on the values of interaction parameters the system exhibits homogeneous (anti-)ferromagnetic or non-ordered phase as well as phase separation state. Transitions between homogeneous phases (i.e. antiferromagnetic-non-ordered transitions) can be of first or second order and the tricritical point is also present on the phase diagrams. The electron compressibility K is an indicator of the phase separation and that quantity is of particular interest of this paper