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Canadian Journal of Physics

Rigorous studies on magnetic susceptibilities of a defective finite Ising chain

Yan Qi, An Du

Published Jan 30, 2014• 3 citations
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Abstract

Exact solution of the magnetic susceptibility for an S = 1/2 defective finite Ising chain is obtained by employing the transfer matrix method. The thermal dependence of susceptibility multiplied by temperature for the chain coupled to different magnetic impurities is investigated at all T ≥ 0. The results show that in the zero temperature limit the product of these two quantities equals the square of the net spin, demonstrating that Curie’s constants are truly invariant at low temperatures. The intrinsic properties of net spin are also reflected through their different responses to the parity of chain length at low temperature. In addition, the impacts of various host–impurity couplings as well as single-ion anisotropies on the susceptibility are discussed as well.

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10.1139/cjp-2013-0282

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Any antiferromagnet with zero net magnetic moment exhibits limited response to an external homogeneous magnetic field. This changes dramatically in the presence of defect sites, even those that carry no spin. We examine the excess susceptibilities, longitudinal and transverse, due to one or more defects at arbitrary separations in a finite Ising chain with nearest-neighbor couplings. Adapting matrix methods to finite chains we derive exact formulas valid at all $T\ensuremath{\geqslant}0$.
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We calculate the impurity susceptibility for a spin-1/2 magnetic impurity symmetrically coupled to its two nearest-neighbor spins in an antiferromagnetic Heisenberg spin-1/2 chain. This is done by extending White's density-matrix renormalization group (DMRG) technique to finite temperatures. It is found that the impurity susceptibility satisfies Curie law at low temperatures, and that the Curie constant decreases rapidly with increasing coupling constant between the impurity spin and the spins in the chain. For strong couplings, a logarithmic dependence of the susceptibility on temperature emerges. The Curie law behavior agrees with the DMRG analysis at zero temperature but deviates from the prediction of conformal field theory.
The transfer-matrix method is employed to investigate a spin-1/2 Ising chain under open and periodic boundary conditions. It is demonstrated that finite-size Ising chains with antiferromagnetic coupling may exhibit significantly distinct magnetic behavior under open and periodic boundary conditions. While the open Ising chains display intriguing magnetic features regardless of the system size, mainly due to a specific contribution of boundary spins, the magnetic behavior of closed Ising chains depends basically on the number of spins. The closed Ising chains with an odd number of spins are subject to a geometric spin frustration leading to an additional plateau in the magnetization curve, which is naturally absent in the closed Ising chains with an even number of spins. Despite different microscopic origins, the magnetization curves of open and closed Ising chains with an odd number of spins exhibit an identical intermediate plateau, with only small quantitative differences appearing at moderate temperatures, which means that a geometric spin frustration of odd-membered rings is somewhat similar to the effect of open boundaries. The magnetization curves of the open Ising chains with an even number of spins differ drastically from those of the closed Ising chains due to the presence of an additional intermediate magnetization plateau. Furthermore, the initial susceptibility, inverse initial susceptibility, and susceptibility-temperature product are examined in detail as functions of temperature. These magnetic response functions demonstrate that the Curie constant and Weiss temperature represent fundamental characteristics of the magnetic system that are independent of the choice of boundary conditions.