Phase diagram and tricritical behavior of an metamagnet in uniform and random fields

A two-sublattice Ising metamagnet in both uniform and random fields is studied within the mean-field approach based on Bogoliubov's inequality for the Gibbs free energy. We show that the qualitative features of the phase diagrams are dependent on the parameters of the model and the uniform field values. The tricritical point and reentrant phenomenon can be observed on the phase diagram. The reentrance is due to the competition between uniform and random interactions. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.