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Magnetization Process and Adiabatic Demagnetization of the Antiferromagnetic Spin-1/2 Heisenberg Cubic Cluster

Statistical Mechanics 2023-07-19 v1 Strongly Correlated Electrons

Abstract

A full energy spectrum of the spin-1/2 Heisenberg cubic cluster is used to investigate a low-temperature magnetization process and adiabatic demagnetization of this zero-dimensional 2x2x2 quantum spin system. It is shown that the antiferromagnetic spin-1/2 Heisenberg cube exhibits at low enough temperatures a stepwise magnetization curve with four intermediate plateaux at zero, one quarter, one half, and three quarters of the saturation magnetization. We have also found the enhanced magnetocaloric effect close to level-crossing fields that determine transitions between the intermediate plateaux.

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@article{arxiv.1305.6704,
  title  = {Magnetization Process and Adiabatic Demagnetization of the Antiferromagnetic Spin-1/2 Heisenberg Cubic Cluster},
  author = {Jozef Strecka and Jana Cisarova},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1305.6704},
  year   = {2023}
}

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2 pages, 3 figures, 1 table, contribution to proceedings of CSMAG'13 conference