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Zero-Temperature Study of a Tetrameric Spin-1/2 Chain in a Transverse Magnetic Field

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We consider an alternating Heisenberg spin-1/2 antiferromagnetic–ferromagnetic chain with the space-modulated dominant antiferromagnetic exchange and anisotropic ferromagnetic coupling (tetrameric spin-1/2 chain). The zero-temperature effect of a symmetry breaking transverse magnetic field on the model is studied numerically. It is found that the anisotropy effect on the ferromagnetic coupling induces two new gapped phases. We identified their orderings as a kind of the stripe antiferromagnetic phase. As a result, the magnetic phase diagram of the tetrameric chain shows five gapped quantum phases, and the system is characterized by four critical fields which mark quantum phase transitions in the ground state of the system with the changing transverse magnetic field. We have also exploited the well-known bipartite entanglement (name as concurrence) and global entanglement tools to verify the occurrence of quantum phase transitions and the corresponding critical points.

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  1. Department of Physics, Sari Branch, Islamic Azad University, Sari, Iran

    J. Vahedi

  2. Center for Theoretical Physics of Complex Systems, Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Daejeon, Korea

    J. Vahedi

  3. Department of Physics, University of Guilan, Rasht, 41335-1914, Iran

    M. Shabani Arbousara & S. Mahdavifar

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Vahedi, J., Arbousara, M.S. & Mahdavifar, S. Zero-Temperature Study of a Tetrameric Spin-1/2 Chain in a Transverse Magnetic Field. J Low Temp Phys 186, 217–232 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10909-016-1672-z

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