arXiv:1510.04913 · Journal of Physics Conference Series
Effect of monomer-monomer interactions on the phase diagrams of the S = 1/2 distorted diamond type quantum spin chain
Kiyomi Okamoto, Takashi Tonegawa, Tôru Sakai
Abstract
By use of mainly the exact diagonalization and the level spectroscopy method, we investigate the ground-state phase diagrams of the S = 1/2 distorted diamond type quantum spin chain with the monomer-monomer interactions and/or ferromagnetic interactions for the zero magnetic field case, as well as the M = M s /3 case and the M = (2/3) M s case, where M is the total magnetization and M s is the saturation magnetization. The magnetization plateau at M = M s /3 vanishes in the region where the ferromagnetic interaction is rather strong. The monomer-monomer interaction remarkably stabilizes the magnetization plateau at M = (2/3) M s .