Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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8943645 | Physics Letters A | 2018 | 7 Pages |
Abstract
The ground-state degeneracy and magnetocaloric effect in the spin-1/2 Ising-Heisenberg double-tetrahedral chain are exactly investigated. It is demonstrated that the zero-temperature phase diagram involves two classical and two quantum chiral phases with distinct degrees of the macroscopic degeneracy. Different macroscopic degeneracies observed in the latter phases and at individual ground-state phase transitions are confirmed by multiple-peak dependencies of the specific heat and entropy on the magnetic field. The cooling capability of the model is well illustrated by the magnetic-field variations of the isothermal entropy change, temperature isotherms and the magnetic Grüneisen parameter.
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Authors
Lucia Gálisová, DuÅ¡an Knežo,