Effects of selective dilution on phase diagram and ground-state magnetizations of an Ising antiferromagnet on triangular and honeycomb lattices

We employ an effective-field theory with correlations in order to study the phase diagram and ground-state magnetizations of a selectively diluted Ising antiferromagnet on triangular and honeycomb lattices. Dilution of different sublattices with generally unequal probabilities results in a rather intricate phase diagram in the sublattice dilution parameters space. In the case of the frustrated triangular lattice antiferromagnet the selective dilution affects the degree of frustration which can lead to some peculiar phenomena, such as reentrant behavior of long-range order or unsaturated sublattice magnetizations at zero temperature. The selectively diluted Ising antiferromagnet on the honeycomb lattice is obtained as a special case when one sublattice of the triangular lattice is completely removed by dilution.

► We study triangular Ising antiferromagnet with selectively diluted sublattices.
► We apply an effective field theory with correlations that accounts for frustration.
► Phase diagram in the sublattice concentration space features reentrant phenomena.
► Sublattice magnetizations at zero temperature do not saturate due to frustration.
► Selectively diluted model on a honeycomb lattice is obtained as a special case.