Magnetism and thermodynamics of spin-(1/2,1) decorated Heisenberg chain with spin-1 pendants

Details Magnetism and thermodynamics of spin-(1/2,1) decorated Heisenberg chain with spin-1 pendants Magnetism and thermodynamics of spin-(1/2,1) decorated Heisenberg chain with spin-1 pendants

2010-06-04

arxiv.org/abs/1006.0794v1

Published in Phys. Rev. B 81, 214431 (2010)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Strongly Correlated Electrons

10 pages, 8 figures, accepted by Phys. Rev. B

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevB.81.214431

The magnetic and thermodynamic properties of a new ferrimagnetic decorated spin-(1/2,1) Heisenberg chain with spin-1 pendant spins are investigated for three cases: (A) J1,J2>0; (B) J1>0, J2<0; and (C) J1<0, J2>0, where J1 and J2 are the exchange couplings between spins in the chain and along the rung, respectively. The low-lying and magnetic properties are explored jointly by the real-space renormalization group, spin wave, and density-matrix renormalization group methods, while the transfer-matrix renormalization group method is invoked to study the thermodynamics. It is found that the magnon spectra consist of a gapless and two gapped branches. Two branches in case (C) have intersections. The coupling dependence of low-energy gaps are analyzed. In a magnetic field, an m=3/2 (m is the magnetization per unit cell) plateau is observed for case (A), while two plateaux at m=1/2 and 3/2 are observed for cases (B) and (C). Between the two plateaux in cases (B) and (C), the sublattice magnetizations for the spins coupled by ferromagnetic interactions have novel decreasing regions with increasing the magnetic field. At finite temperature, the zero-field susceptibility temperature product chi*T and specific heat exhibit distinct exotic features with varying the couplings and temperature for different cases. chi*T is found to converge as T approaches zero, which is different from the divergent behavior in the spin-(1/2,1) mixed-spin chain without pendants. The observed thermodynamic behaviors are also discussed with the help of their low-lying excitations.

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