Phase diagrams of spin-3/2 Ising model in the presence of random crystal field within the effective field theory based on two approximations

The bimodal random crystal field （A） effects are investigated on the phase diagrams of spin-3/2 Ising model by using the effective-field theory with correlations based on two approximations： the general van der Waerden identity and the approximated van der Waerden identity. In our approach, the crystal field is either turned on or turned off randomly for a given probability p or q = 1 -p, respectively. Then the phase diagrams are constructed on the （A,kT/J） and （p,kT/J） planes for given p and A, respectively, when the coordination number is z = 3. Furthermore, the effect of randomization of the crystal field is illustrated on the （△,kT/J） plane for p = 0.5 when z - 3,4, and 6. All these are carried out for both approximations and then the results are compared to point out the differences. In addition to the lines of second-order phase transitions, the model also exhibits first-order phase transitions and the lines of which terminate at the isolated critical points for high p values.

Phase diagrams of the spin-2 Ising model in the presence of a quenched diluted crystal field distribution

We have investigated the random crystal field effects on the phase diagrams of the spin-2 Blume-Capel model for a honeycomb lattice using the effective-field theory with correlations. To do so, the thermal variations of magnetization are studied via calculating the phase diagrams of the model. We have found that the model displays both second-order and first-order phase transitions in addition to the tricritical and isolated points. Reentrant behavior is also observed for some appropriate values of certain system parameters. Besides the usual ground-state phases of the spin-2 model including ±2, ~1, and 0, we have also observed the phases ±3/2 and ±1/2, which are unusual for the spin-2 case.

Necessary and sufficient condition of C^0 flows on closed surfaces with isolated singular points having the pseudo-orbit tracing property

IN this letter we discuss the necessary and sufficient condition of C^0 flows on closed surfaces with isolated singular points having the pseudo-orbit tracing property. According to ref. [1], on a closed surface, every minimal set of a C^r(r≥2) flow is trivial, but it is possible for a C^0 flow to contain non-trivial minimal sets. Thus C^0 flows on closed surfaces are more complicated than C^r(r≥2) flows.

A NOTE ON THE STABILITY OF A CLASS OF DEGENERATE PLANAR CRITICAL POINTS

A computable expression of the asymptotic expansion of the return map for a degenerate singular point of a class of planar differential system is given, and hence the stability and the type of the singular point can be decided. These results generalize the corresponding results in [Nonlinearity, 13 （2000）, p.709].

Image and Video Quality Assessment Using Neural Network and SVM

An image and video quality assessment method was developed using neural network and support vector machines （SVM） with the peak signal to noise ratio （PSNR） and the structure similarity indexes used to describe image quality. The neural network was used to obtain the mapping functions between the objective quality assessment indexes and subjective quality assessment. The SVM was used to classify the images into different types which were accessed using different mapping functions. Video quality was assessed based on the quality of each frame in the video sequence with various weights to describe motion and scene changes in the video. The number of isolated points in the correlations of the image and video subjective and objective quality assessments was reduced by this method. Simulation results show that the method accurately accesses image quality. The monotonicity of the method for images is 6.94% higher than with the PSNR method, and the root mean square error is at least 35.90% higher than with the PSNR.