Progress of Theoretical Physics Supplement
Ground-State Phase Diagram of theS= 1/2 Distorted Diamond Type Spin Chain with Ferromagnetic Interactions
Kiyomi Okamoto, Takashi Tonegawa, Tsutoshi Yamada, M. Matsumoto, Mikito Koga, Tôru Sakai
Abstract
We investigate, analytically and numerically, the ground state of the S = 1/2 distorted diamond type spin chain having three kinds of couplings, where one or two types of the couplings are ferromagnetic. We obtained the phase diagram at zero-magnetic field and also at Ms/3, where Ms is the saturation magnetization. We also discuss the plateau at (2/3)Ms.