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The antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model on the dodecahedron possesses a number of ground state magnetization discontinuities in a field at the classical and quantum level, even though it lacks magnetic anisotropy. Here the model is…
The icosahedron has a ground state magnetization discontinuity in an external magnetic field when classical spins mounted on its vertices are coupled according to the antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model. This is so even if there is no…
The antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model on the icosahedron, which consists of 20 edge-sharing triangles and belongs to the icosahedral $I_h$ symmetry group, presents unconventional properties at the classical and quantum level. These…
The antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model on icosahedral symmetry $I_{h}$ fullerene clusters exhibits unconventional magnetic properties, despite the lack of anisotropic interactions. At the classical level, and for number of sites $n \leq…
The ground state of the classical antiferromagnetic XX model in a magnetic field is calculated for spins mounted on the vertices of the icosahedron. The magnetization is characterized by two discontinuities as a function of the external…
The 600-cell is a regular 4-polytope that is a four-dimensional analog of a Platonic solid. Three-dimensional Platonic solids with icosahedral $I_h$-symmetry have been shown to have a discontinuous ground-state magnetization response in an…
Magnetization process of ferrimagnetic Heisenberg chains of alternating spins are theoretically studied. The size scaling analysis with the exact diagonalization of finite systems for ($S$,$s$)=(3/2,1) and (2,1) indicates a multi-plateau…
The pentakis dodecahedron, the dual of the truncated icosahedron, consists of 60 edge-sharing triangles. It has 20 six- and 12 five-fold coordinated vertices, with the former forming a dodecahedron, and each of the latter connected to the…
The antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model is considered for spins $s_{i}={1/2}$ located on the vertices of the dodecahedron and the icosahedron, which belong to the point symmetry group $I_{h}$. Taking into account the permutational and spin…
The quantum antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model on the fullerene C$_{60}$ in a magnetic field has $4s$ ground-state magnetization discontinuities with $\Delta S^z=2$ as a function of the spin quantum number $s$ that disappear at the…
Magnetization process and adiabatic demagnetization of the antiferromagnetic Ising spin clusters with the shape of regular polyhedra (Platonic solids) are exactly examined within the framework of a simple graph-theoretical approach. While…
The magnetization process and adiabatic demagnetization of the antiferromagnetic spin-1/2 XXZ Heisenberg clusters with the shape of regular polyhedra (tetrahedron, octahedron, cube, icosahedron and dodecahedron) are examined using the exact…
The response of a complex system to a slow varying external force often displays a jump discontinuity in the order parameter near the critical point. However, this discontinuity is not usually a single jump but rather breaks into smaller…
The ground-state magnetic response of fullerene molecules with up to 36 vertices is calculated, when spins classical or with magnitude $s=\frac{1}{2}$ are located on their vertices and interact according to the nearest-neighbor…
Magnetic properties of the spin-1/2 XXZ Heisenberg cuboctahedron are examined using exact numerical diagonalization depending on a relative strength of the exchange anisotropy. While the Ising cuboctahedron exhibits in a low-temperature…
The classical ground state magnetic response of the Heisenberg model when rotationally invariant exchange interactions of integer order q>1 are added is found to be discontinuous, even though the interactions lack magnetic anisotropy. This…
The spontaneous magnetization is proved to vanish continuously at the critical temperature for a class of ferromagnetic Ising spin systems which includes the nearest neighbor ferromagnetic Ising spin model on $\mathbb Z^d$ in $d=3$…
A symmetric spin-1/2 Ising-Heisenberg diamond chain with the Ising four-spin interaction is exactly solved by means of the generalized decoration-iteration mapping transformation. The ground state, the magnetization process and…
It is shown that an external magnetic field generates local variations of the classical ground-state magnetization in molecular rings of antiferromagnetic icosahedra with isotropic spin interactions. The magnetic response is characterized…
The spin-1/2 Ising-Heisenberg model on martini and martini-diced lattice is exactly solved using a star-triangle transformation, which affords an exact mapping correspondence to an effective spin-1/2 Ising model on a triangular lattice. The…