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Exactly solvable spin-1 Ising-Heisenberg diamond chain with the second-neighbor interaction between nodal spins

Statistical Mechanics 2016-02-04 v1

Abstract

The spin-1 Ising-Heisenberg diamond chain with the second-neighbor interaction between the nodal spins is rigorously solved using the transfer-matrix method. Exact results for the ground state, magnetization process and specific heat are presented and discussed in particular. It is shown that the further-neighbor interaction between the nodal spins gives rise to three novel ground states with a translationally broken symmetry, but at the same time, it does not increases the total number of intermediate plateaus in a zero-temperature magnetization curve compared with the simplified model without this interaction term. The zero-field specific heat displays interesting thermal dependencies with a single- or double-peak structure.

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@article{arxiv.1512.05150,
  title  = {Exactly solvable spin-1 Ising-Heisenberg diamond chain with the second-neighbor interaction between nodal spins},
  author = {Vahan Hovhannisyan and Jozef Strecka and Nerses Ananikian},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1512.05150},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

11 pages, 5 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1406.0999