Low-temperature properties of frustrated Ising chains
B G S Doman, John Kino Yamaguchi Williams
Recently published methods used to examine the ground-state properties of the random-bond Ising chain in a uniform magnetic field are extended to describe the system at low temperatures. The entropy spikes broaden asymmetrically, and the excitation energy and specific heat become asymmetric double-peaked functions of the magnetic field with zero values between the peaks at B=2J/r for integer r. The magnetisation steps at B=2J/r are smoothed out asymmetrically. Both the ground-state and finite-temperature properties of a simple periodic frustrated Ising chain are investigated using the transfer-matrix method. The ground-state properties are similar to those of the random bond chain; the ground-state entropy, for instance, is finite for J<or=B<or=2J, with spikes at J and 2J.
Journal of Physics C Solid State Physics•Mar 20, 1982•7 citations