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arXiv:2607.11661

Thermal phase transitions in a mixed-spin Ising model on the Lieb lattice: Exact results beyond zero magnetic field

Jozef Strečka, Katarína Karľová

Published Jul 13, 2026• 0 citations
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Abstract

We investigate the ground-state and finite-temperature properties of a mixed spin-1/2 and spin-1 Ising model on a decorated square (Lieb) lattice incorporating a uniaxial single-ion anisotropy and magnetic field. By employing the generalized decoration-iteration transformation, the model is mapped exactly onto an effective spin-1/2 Ising model on the square lattice characterized by an effective nearest-neighbor interaction and an effective field. The studied model consequently becomes exactly solvable even for finite values of the applied magnetic field whenever the effective field vanishes. The ground-state analysis reveals three distinct phases: ferrimagnetic phase (FRI), disordered phase (DP), and ferromagnetic (FM) phase. The ground-state boundary between FRI and DP phases gives rise to a dome-shaped surface of discontinuous thermal phase transitions, which is terminated by a line of Ising-type critical points associated with continuous thermal phase transitions. Both continuous and discontinuous thermal phase transitions belong to the exactly solvable parameter regime defined by a vanishing effective field in spite of the fact that the applied magnetic field is finite. Two consecutive discontinuous thermally-induced reentrant phase transitions DP-FRI-DP are identified in a narrow parameter region. The exact analytical predictions including reentrance, field- and thermally-driven phase transitions are independently verified by classical Monte Carlo simulations.

DOI
10.48550/arxiv.2607.11661

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The mixed-spin-(1∕2,SB,SC)(1∕2,{S}_{\mathrm{B}},{S}_{\mathrm{C}})(1∕2,SB​,SC​) Ising model on a decorated square lattice with two different kinds of decorating spins SB{S}_{\mathrm{B}}SB​ and SC{S}_{\mathrm{C}}SC​ $({S}_{\mathrm{B}}\ensuremath{\ne}{S}_{\mathrm{C}})$ placed on its horizontal and vertical bonds, respectively, is exactly solved by establishing a precise mapping relationship with the corresponding spin-1∕21∕21∕2 Ising model on an anisotropic square (rectangular) lattice. The effect of uniaxial single-ion anisotropy acting on both types of decorating spins SB{S}_{\mathrm{B}}SB​ and SC{S}_{\mathrm{C}}SC​ is examined, in particular. If decorating spins SB{S}_{\mathrm{B}}SB​ and SC{S}_{\mathrm{C}}SC​ are integer and half-odd-integer, respectively, or if the reverse is the case, the model under investigation displays a very peculiar critical behavior that had bearing on the spontaneously ordered ``quasi-one-dimensional'' spin system, which appears as a result of the single-ion anisotropy strengthening. We have found convincing evidence that this remarkable spontaneous ordering virtually arises even though all integer-valued decorating spins tend toward their ``nonmagnetic'' spin state S=0S=0S=0 and the system becomes disordered only upon further increase of the single-ion anisotropy. The single-ion anisotropy parameter is also at an origin of various temperature dependences of the total magnetization when imposing the pure ferrimagnetic or the mixed ferro-ferrimagnetic character of the spin arrangement.
The article provides a tutorial review on how to treat Ising models within mean-field (MF), effective-field (EF) and exact methods. MF solutions of the spin-1 Blume-Capel (BC) model and the mixed-spin Ising model demonstrate a change of continuous phase transitions to discontinuous ones at a tricritical point. A quantum phase transition of the spin-S Ising model driven by a transverse field is explored within MF method. EF theory is elaborated within a single- and two-spin cluster approach to demonstrate an efficiency of this approximate method. The long-standing problem of this method concerned with a self-consistent determination of the free energy is addressed. EF theory is adapted for the spin-1/2 Ising model, the spin-S BC model and the transverse Ising model. The particular attention is paid to continuous and discontinuous transitions. Exact results for the spin-1/2 Ising chain, spin-1 BC chain and mixed-spin Ising chain are obtained using the transfer-matrix method, the crucial steps of which are reviewed for a spin-1/2 Ising square lattice. Critical points of the spin-1/2 Ising model on several lattices are rigorously obtained with the help of dual, star-triangle and decoration-iteration transformations. Mapping transformations are adapted to obtain exact results for the mixed-spin Ising model on planar lattices. An increase in the coordination number of the mixed-spin Ising model on decorated planar lattices gives rise to reentrant transitions, while the critical temperature of the mixed-spin Ising model on a regular honeycomb lattice is always greater than that of two semi-regular archimedean lattices. The effect of selective site dilution of the mixed-spin Ising model on a honeycomb lattice upon phase diagrams is examined. The review affords a brief account of the Ising models solved within MF, EF and exact methods along with a few comments on their future applicability.