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Physical Review B, 2009
The generalized decoration-iteration transformation is adopted to treat exactly a hybrid model of doubly decorated two-dimensional lattices, which have localized Ising spins at their nodal lattice sites and itinerant electrons delocalized over pairs of decorating sites. Under the assumption of a half filling of each couple of the decorating sites, the investigated model system exhibits a remarkable spontaneous antiferromagnetic long-range order with an obvious quantum reduction of the staggered magnetization. It is shown that the critical temperature of the spontaneously long-range ordered quantum antiferromagnet displays an outstanding non-monotonic dependence on a ratio between the kinetic term and the Ising-type exchange interaction.
Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, 2016
The generalized decoration-iteration transformation is adapted for the exact study of a coupled spin-electron model on 2D lattices in which localized Ising spins reside on nodal lattice sites and mobile electrons are delocalized over pairs of decorating sites. The model takes into account a hopping term for mobile electrons, the Ising coupling between mobile electrons and localized spins as well as the Ising coupling between localized spins (J ′). The ground state, spontaneous magnetization and specific heat are examined for both ferromagnetic (J ′ > 0) as well as antiferromagnetic (J ′ < 0) interaction between the localized spins. Several kinds of reentrant transitions between the paramagnetic (P), antiferromagnetic (AF) and ferromagnetic (F) phases have been found either with a single critical point, or with two consecutive critical points (P − AF/F − P) and three successive critical points AF/F − P − F/AF − P. Striking thermal variations of the spontaneous magnetization depict a strong reduction due to the interplay between annealed disorder and quantum fluctuations in addition to the aforementioned reentrance. It is shown that the specific heat displays diverse thermal dependencies including finite cusps at the critical temperatures.
Physical Review B, 2007
The mixed spin-(1/2, SB, SC) Ising model on a decorated square lattice with two different kinds of decorating spins SB and SC (SB = SC) placed on its horizontal and vertical bonds, respectively, is exactly solved by establishing a precise mapping relationship with the corresponding spin-1/2 Ising model on an anisotropic square (rectangular) lattice. The effect of uniaxial single-ion anisotropy acting on both types of decorating spins SB and SC is examined in particular. If decorating spins SB and SC are integer and half-odd-integer, respectively, or if the reverse is the case, the model under investigation displays a very peculiar critical behavior beared on the spontaneously ordered 'quasi-1D' spin system, which appears as a result of the single-ion anisotropy strengthening. We have found convincing evidence that this remarkable spontaneous ordering virtually arises even though all integer-valued decorating spins tend towards their 'non-magnetic' spin state S = 0 and the system becomes disordered only upon further increase of the single-ion anisotropy. The single-ion anisotropy parameter is also at an origin of various temperature dependences of the total magnetization when imposing the pure ferrimagnetic or the mixed ferro-ferrimagnetic character of the spin arrangement.
International Journal of Modern Physics B, 2008
The mixed-spin Ising model on a decorated square lattice with two different decorating spins of the integer magnitudes S B = 1 and S C = 2 placed on horizontal and vertical bonds of the lattice, respectively, is examined within an exact analytical approach based on the generalized decoration-iteration mapping transformation. Besides the groundstate analysis, finite-temperature properties of the system are also investigated in detail. The most interesting numerical result to emerge from our study relates to a striking critical behaviour of the spontaneously ordered 'quasi-1D' spin system. It was found that this quite remarkable spontaneous order arises when one sub-lattice of the decorating spins (either S B or S C) tends towards their 'non-magnetic' spin state S = 0 and the system becomes disordered only upon further single-ion anisotropy strengthening. The effect of single-ion anisotropy upon the temperature dependence of the total and sublattice magnetization is also particularly investigated.
Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2009
Phase transitions of the mixed spin-1/2 and spinS (S ≥ 1/2) Ising model on a three-dimensional (3D) decorated lattice with a layered magnetic structure are investigated within the framework of a precise mapping relationship to the simple spin-1/2 Ising model on the tetragonal lattice. This mapping correspondence yields for the layered Ising model of mixed spins plausible results either by adopting the conjectured solution for the spin-1/2 Ising model on the orthorhombic lattice [Z.-D. Zhang, Philos. Mag. 87 (2007) 5309-5419] or by performing extensive Monte Carlo simulations for the corresponding spin-1/2 Ising model on the tetragonal lattice. It is shown that the critical behaviour markedly depends on a relative strength of axial zero-field splitting parameter, inter-and intra-layer interactions. The striking spontaneous order captured to the 'quasi-1D' spin system is found in a restricted region of interaction parameters, where the zero-field splitting parameter forces all integer-valued decorating spins towards their 'non-magnetic' spin state.
Acta Physica Polonica A, 2017
Magnetocaloric properties of the spin-1/2 Ising model on a decorated square lattice in a transverse magnetic field are investigated by the use of a generalized decoration-iteration transformation, which establishes a rigorous mapping correspondence with the zero-field spin-1/2 Ising model on a square lattice. The temperature dependence of the entropy, the isothermal entropy change and the adiabatic temperature change display anomalous singular behavior in a vicinity of a second-order phase transition. The large inverse magnetocaloric effect can be found in the isothermal entropy change within the temperature interval, which is delimited by the critical temperatures at zero and non-zero transverse fields.
Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials
The mixed spin-1/2 and spinS Ising model on a decorated planar lattice accounting for lattice vibrations of decorating atoms is treated by making use of the canonical coordinate transformation, the decoration-iteration transformation, and the harmonic approximation. It is shown that the magnetoelastic coupling gives rise to an effective single-ion anisotropy and three-site four-spin interaction, which are responsible for the anomalous spin frustration of the decorating spins in virtue of a competition with the equilibrium nearest-neighbor exchange interaction between the nodal and decorating spins. The ground-state and finite-temperature phase diagrams are constructed for the particular case of the mixed spin-1/2 and spin-1 Ising model on a decorated square lattice for which thermal dependencies of the spontaneous magnetization and specific heat are also examined in detail. It is evidenced that a sufficiently strong magnetoelastic coupling leads to a peculiar coexistence of the antiferromagnetic long-range order of the nodal spins with the disorder of the decorating spins within the frustrated antiferromagnetic phase, which may also exhibit double reentrant phase transitions. The investigated model displays a variety of temperature dependencies of the total specific heat, which may involve in its magnetic part one or two logarithmic divergences apart from one or two additional round maxima superimposed on a standard thermal dependence of the lattice part of the specific heat.
Physics Letters A
The mixed spin-(1/2, 3/2) Ising model on a decorated square lattice, which takes into account lattice vibrations of the spin-3/2 decorating magnetic ions at a quantum-mechanical level under the assumption of a perfect lattice rigidity of the spin-1/2 nodal magnetic ions, is examined via an exact mapping correspondence with the effective spin-1/2 Ising model on a square lattice. Although the considered magnetic structure is in principle unfrustrated due to bipartite nature of a decorated square lattice, the model under investigation may display anomalous spin frustration driven by a magnetoelastic coupling. It turns out that the magnetoelastic coupling is a primary cause for existence of the frustrated antiferromagnetic phases, which exhibit a peculiar coexistence of antiferromagnetic long-range order of the nodal spins with a partial disorder of the decorating spins with possible reentrant critical behaviour. Under certain conditions, the anomalous spin frustration caused by the magnetoelastic coupling is responsible for unprecedented absence of spontaneous long-range order in the mixed-spin Ising model composed from half-odd-integer spins only.
Physica E: Low-dimensional Systems and Nanostructures, 2018
The ground state, zero-temperature magnetization process, critical behaviour and isothermal entropy change of the mixed-spin Ising model on a decorated triangular lattice in a magnetic field are exactly studied after performing the generalized decorationiteration mapping transformation. It is shown that both the inverse and conventional magnetocaloric effect can be found near the absolute zero temperature. The former phenomenon can be found in a vicinity of the discontinuous phase transitions and their crossing, while the latter one occurs in some paramagnetic phases due to a spin frustration to be present at zero magnetic field. The inverse magnetocaloric effect can also be detected slightly above continuous phase transitions following the power-law dependence | − ∆S min iso | ∝ h n , where n depends basically on the ground-state spin ordering.
Physics Letters A, 2012
The spin-1/2 Ising model with a spin-phonon coupling on decorated planar lattices partially amenable to lattice vibrations is examined within the framework of the generalized decoration-iteration transformation and the harmonic approximation. It is shown that the magnetoelastic coupling gives rise to an effective antiferromagnetic next-nearestneighbour interaction, which competes with the nearest-neighbour interaction and is responsible for a frustration of the decorating spins. The strong enough spin-phonon coupling consequently leads to an appearance of the striking partially ordered and partially disordered phase, where a perfect antiferromagnetic alignment of the nodal spins is accompanied with a complete disorder of the decorating spins. The diversity in temperature dependences of the total specific heat is investigated in connection with the particular behaviour of its magnetic and lattice contribution.