Non-universal critical behaviour of heteronuclear dimers on a square lattice -: A Monte Carlo study

Monte Carlo simulation within the grand canonical ensemble, the histogram reweighting technique, and finite size scaling analysis are used to explore the phase behaviour of heteronuclear dimers, composed of A and B type atoms, on a square lattice. We have found that for the models with attractive BB and AB nearest-neighbour energy, u(BB) = u(AB) = -1, and for non-repulsive energy between AA nearest-neighbour sites, u(AA) < 0, the system belongs to the universality class of the two-dimensional Ising model. However, when u(AA) > 0, the system exhibits a non-universal critical behaviour. We have evaluated the dependences of the critical point characteristics on the value of u(AA) (C) 2002 Published by Elsevier Science B.V.