کد مقاله | کد نشریه | سال انتشار | مقاله انگلیسی | نسخه تمام متن |
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1798148 | 1524812 | 2016 | 10 صفحه PDF | دانلود رایگان |
• Spin-1/2 Ising–Heisenberg three-leg tube is exactly solved in a zero magnetic field.
• Thermal entanglement is only present in a frustrated part of the parameter space.
• Spin frustration and thermal entanglement show antagonistic reentrance.
• Specific heat may display a sharp narrow peak due to massive thermal excitations.
The spin-1/2 Ising–Heisenberg three-leg tube composed of the Heisenberg spin triangles mutually coupled through the Ising inter-triangle interaction is exactly solved in a zero magnetic field. By making use of the local conservation for the total spin on each Heisenberg spin triangle the model can be rigorously mapped onto a classical composite spin-chain model, which is subsequently exactly treated through the transfer-matrix method. The ground-state phase diagram, correlation functions, concurrence, Bell function, entropy and specific heat are examined in detail. It is shown that the spin frustration represents an indispensable ground for a thermal entanglement, which is quantified by the quantum concurrence. The specific heat displays diverse temperature dependences, which may include a sharp low-temperature peak mimicking a temperature-driven first-order phase transition. It is convincingly evidenced that this anomalous peak originates from massive thermal excitations from the doubly degenerate ground state towards an excited state with a high macroscopic degeneracy due to chiral degrees of freedom of the Heisenberg spin triangles.
Journal: Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials - Volume 409, 1 July 2016, Pages 124–133