Title
Effect of a magnetic field in an S = 1 antiferromagnetic chain with single-ion anisotropy and alternating bonds with disorder
Date Issued
01 May 2021
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
research article
Author(s)
Universidade Federal Do Amazonas
Abstract
In this study, we investigated the quantization of magnetization at low temperatures in a spin-1 antiferromagnetic chain with single-ion anisotropy by considering the quenched disorder in alternating bonds. Each spin i interacts with its nearest neighbors via Ji and αJi couplings, where Ji is considered to obey a Gaussian or Bernoulli probability distribution function, with width σ. Zero temperature phase diagrams were obtained by minimizing the energy of the Hamiltonian. For finite temperatures, a transfer matrix technique was applied in order to treat the partition function. Consequently, the magnetization curve calculated by deriving the quenched average of the free energy exhibited interesting plateaus, which were modified when randomness was considered. Experimentally, these plateaus appear when some chain structures are subjected to a magnetic field.
Volume
152
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Física de partículas, Campos de la Física
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85100735962
Source
Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids
ISSN of the container
00223697
Sponsor(s)
Financial support is acknowledged from CNPq (projects 408787/2018-0 , 306569/2018-3 and 407462/2018-0 ) and FAPEAM (Brazilian Research Agencies). We are also grateful for computational resources at CENAPAD-SP (Centro Nacional de Processamento de Alto Desempenho em São Paulo), project UNICAMP/FINEP-MCT, and LFCAD (Laboratório de Física Computacional de Alto Desempenho) of the Statistical Mechanics and Complex Systems group of UFAM.
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