Abstract Magnetic and thermodynamic properties of the anisotropic XYZ spin-1/2 finite chain under both homogeneous and inhomogeneous magnetic fields are theoretically studied at low temperature. Using exact diagonalization method (ED), we study the magnetization, magnetic susceptibility, and specific heat of the model characterized in terms of the finite correlation length in the presence of three different magnetic fields including longitudinal, transverse, and transverse staggered magnetic fields. The magnetization, susceptibility, and the specific heat of the model are investigated under two conditions separately: (i) When the model is putted in the presence of homogeneous magnetic fields. (ii) When finite inhomogeneities are considered for all applied magnetic fields in the Hamiltonian. We show that for the finite-size XYZ chains at low temperature, the evident magnetization plateaus gradually convert to their counterpart quasi-plateaus when the transverse magnetic field increases. Moreover, the influence of the transverse and staggered transverse magnetic fields, and their corresponding inhomogeneities on the magnetization process, magnetic susceptibility, and specific heat are reported in detail. Our exact results illustrate that by altering the inhomogeneity parameters, magnetization plateaus gradually convert to their counterpart quasi-plateaus. The specific heat manifests Schottky-type maximum, double-peak, and triple-peak, as well as, transformation between them by varying considered inhomogeneity parameters in the Hamiltonian.
Magnetic and thermodynamic properties of the anisotropic Heisenberg XXZ spin=1/2 chain under both homogeneous and inhomogeneous magnetic fields are theoretically studied at finite low temperature. To this end, we rigorously study the magnetization, magnetic susceptibility and specific heat of the model in the vicinity of three different magnetic fields including longitudinal, transverse and transverse staggered magnetic fields. The thermodynamic parameters of the model are investigated under two conditions separately: I) when the model is putted in the presence of homogeneous magnetic fields; II) when a finite inhomogeneity is considered for all applied magnetic fields in the Hamiltonian. We show that at low temperature, independent of the chain size, the magnetization curve versus longitudinal field has some plateaus, which convert to their counterpart quasi-plateaus when the transverse magnetic field increases. Moreover, the influence of the transverse and staggered transverse magnetic fields, and their corresponding inhomogeneities on the magnetization, susceptibility, and specific heat is reported in detail. We find that the inhomogeneity has a substantial effect on the thermodynamic parameters of the model under consideration.
Thermodynamic properties of the S=1/2 Heisenberg chain in transverse staggered magnetic field H^y_s and uniform magnetic field H^x perpendicular to the staggered field is studied by the finite-temperature density-matrix renormalization-group method. The uniform and staggered magnetization and specific heat are calculated from zero temperature to high temperatures up to T/J=4 under various strength of magnetic fields from H^y_s/J, H^x/J=0 to 2.4. The specific heat and magnetization of the effective Hamiltonian of the Yb_4As_3 are also presented, and field induced gap formation and diverging magnetic susceptibility at low temperature are shown.
We have numerically studied the thermodynamic properties of the spin
21 XXZ chain in the presence of a transverse (noncommuting) magnetic field. The thermal, field dependence of specific heat and correlation functions for chains up to 20 sites has been calculated. The area where the specific heat decays exponentially is considered as a measure of the energy gap. We have also obtained the exchange interaction between chains in a bulk material using the random phase approximation and derived the phase diagram of the three-dimensional material with this approximation. The behavior of the structure factor at different momenta verifies the antiferromagnetic long-range order in the
y direction for the three-dimensional case. Moreover, we have concluded that the low temperature Lanczos results [M. Aichhorn et al., Phys. Rev. B 67, 161103(R) (2003)] are more accurate for low temperatures and closer to the full diagonalization ones than the results of finite temperature Lanczos method [J. Jaklic and P. Prelovsek, Phys. Rev. B 49, 5065 (1994)].
We have investigated the zero-and finite-temperature behaviors of the anisotropic antiferromagnetic Heisenberg XXZ spin-1/2 chain in the presence of a transverse magnetic field (h). The attention is concentrated on an interval of magnetic field between the factorizing field (h(f)) and the critical one (h(c)). The model presents a spin-flop phase for 0 < h < h(f) with an energy scale which is defined by the long range antiferromagnetic order while it undergoes an entanglement phase transition at h = h(f). The entanglement estimators clearly show that the entanglement is lost exactly at h = h(f), which justifies different quantum correlations on both sides of the factorizing field. As a consequence of zero entanglement (at h = h(f)) the ground state is known exactly as a product of single-particle states which is the starting point for initiating a spin wave theory. The linear spin wave theory is implemented to obtain the specific heat and thermal entanglement of the model in the interested region. A double-peak structure is found in the specific heat around h = h(f), which manifests the existence of two energy scales in the system as a result of two competing orders before the critical point. These results are confirmed by the low temperature Lanczos data which we have computed.
The static and dynamic properties of the anisotropic
XY model
(s=1∕2) on the inhomogeneous periodic chain, composed of
N cells with
n different exchange interactions and magnetic moments, in a transverse field
h, are determined exactly at arbitrary temperatures. The properties are obtained by introducing the Jordan-Wigner fermionization and by reducing the problem to a diagonalization of a finite matrix of
nth order. The quantum transitions are determined exactly by analyzing, as a function of the field, the induced magnetization $1∕n{\ensuremath{\sum}}_{m=1}^{n}{\ensuremath{\mu}}_{m}⟨{S}_{j,m}^{z}⟩$ (
j denotes the cell,
m the site within the cell, ${\ensuremath{\mu}}_{m}$ the magnetic moment at site
m within the cell) and the spontaneous magnetization $1∕n{\ensuremath{\sum}}_{m=1}^{n}⟨{S}_{j,{m}^{\ensuremath{'}}}^{x}⟩$ which is obtained from the correlations
⟨Sj,mxSj+r,mx⟩ for large spin separations. These results, which are obtained for infinite chains, correspond to an extension of the ones obtained by Tong and Zhong [Physica B 304, 91 (2001)]. The dynamic correlations, $⟨{S}_{j,m}^{z}(t){S}_{{j}^{\ensuremath{'}},{m}^{\ensuremath{'}}}^{z}(0)⟩$, and the dynamic susceptibility, ${\ensuremath{\chi}}_{q}^{zz}(\ensuremath{\omega})$, are also obtained at arbitrary temperatures. Explicit results are presented in the limit
T=0, where the critical behavior occurs, for the static susceptibility ${\ensuremath{\chi}}_{q}^{zz}(0)$ as a function of the transverse field
h, and for the frequency dependency of dynamic susceptibility ${\ensuremath{\chi}}_{q}^{zz}(\ensuremath{\omega})$.