https://doi.org/10.1140/epjp/s13360-021-01566-x
Regular Article
Enhanced magnetocaloric effect in a mixed spin-(1/2, 1) Ising–Heisenberg two-leg ladder with strong–rung interaction
1
A.I. Alikhanyan National Science Laboratory, Alikhanian Br. 2, 0036, Yerevan, Armenia
2
ICTP, Strada Costiera 11, 34151, Trieste, Italy
3
CANDLE Synchrotron Research Institute, Acharyan 31, 0040, Yerevan, Armenia
Received:
11
July
2020
Accepted:
14
May
2021
Published online:
29
May
2021
The magnetic and magnetocaloric properties of the mixed spin-(1/2,1) Ising–Heisenberg model on a two-leg ladder with dimer-rung alternation are exactly examined under an adiabatic demagnetization process using the transfer-matrix formalism. We notify that the magnetization curve of the model exhibits plateaux as a function of the applied magnetic field and cyclic four-spin Ising interaction at certain rational fractions of the saturation value. We precisely investigate the ability of cooling/heating of the model nearby the critical points at which discontinuous ground-state phase transition occurs. It is evidenced that the model manifests an enhanced magnetocaloric effect in a proximity of the magnetization steps and jumps, accompanying with the plateaux and jumps of correlation function of the dimer spins. We conclude that not only the cooling/heating capability of the model could be pleasantly demonstrated by the applied magnetic field variations, but also a typical cyclic four-spin Ising interaction plays essential role to determine an efficiency of the magnetocaloric effect of the model.
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