We investigate the phase diagram of a spin-1/2 Ising model on a cubic lattice, with competing interactions between nearest and next-nearest neighbors along an axial direction, and fully connected spins on the sites of each perpendicular layer. The problem is formulated in terms of a set of...

We analyse the phase diagram of a quantum mean spherical model in terms of the temperature T, a quantum parameter g, and the ratio p=−J2/J1, where J10 refers to ferromagnetic interactions between first-neighbour sites along the d directions of a hypercubic lattice, and J2<0 is associated with competing antiferromagnetic interactions between second neighbours along m≤d directions. We regain a number of known results for the classical version of this model, including the topology of the critical line in the g=0 space, with a Lifshitz point at p=1/4, for d>2, and closed-form...</0>