We study a mixed spin-(3/2,1) ladder system with antiferromagnetic rung coupling and next-nearest-neighbor interaction.The exactly solved Ising-chain model is employed to investigate the ground-state properties and ...We study a mixed spin-(3/2,1) ladder system with antiferromagnetic rung coupling and next-nearest-neighbor interaction.The exactly solved Ising-chain model is employed to investigate the ground-state properties and thermodynamics of the low-dimensional ladder system.Our results show that the competition between different exchange couplings brings in a large variety of ground states characterized by various values of normalized magnetization equal to 0,1/5,2/5,3/5,1.Moreover,an interesting double-peak structure is also detected in the thermal dependence of magnetic susceptibility and specific heat when the frustration comes into play.It is shown that the double-peak phenomenon at zero-field for the case of AF2 ground-state arises from the very strong antiferromagnetic rung coupling,while other cases are attributed to the excitations induced by temperature and external field around the phase boundary.展开更多
基金Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.11547236)the General Project of the Education Department of Liaoning Province,China(Grant No.L2015130)+1 种基金the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities,China(Grant Nos.DC201501065 and DCPY2016014)the Doctoral Starting-up Foundation of Dalian Nationalities University,China
文摘We study a mixed spin-(3/2,1) ladder system with antiferromagnetic rung coupling and next-nearest-neighbor interaction.The exactly solved Ising-chain model is employed to investigate the ground-state properties and thermodynamics of the low-dimensional ladder system.Our results show that the competition between different exchange couplings brings in a large variety of ground states characterized by various values of normalized magnetization equal to 0,1/5,2/5,3/5,1.Moreover,an interesting double-peak structure is also detected in the thermal dependence of magnetic susceptibility and specific heat when the frustration comes into play.It is shown that the double-peak phenomenon at zero-field for the case of AF2 ground-state arises from the very strong antiferromagnetic rung coupling,while other cases are attributed to the excitations induced by temperature and external field around the phase boundary.