Entropy of spin clusters with frustrated geometry |
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Affiliation: | Department of Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics, Faculty of Science, P. J. Šafárik University, Park Angelinum 9, 041 54 Košice, Slovakia |
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Abstract: | Geometrically frustrated clusters of Ising spins of different shapes on a triangular lattice are studied by exact enumeration. The focus is laid on the ground-state energy and residual entropy behaviors as functions of the cluster shape and size, as well as the spin value. Depending on the cluster shape, the residual entropy density in approach to the thermodynamic limit can either vanish or remain finite and the dependence can be decreasing, increasing or non-monotonic. Nevertheless, the relative entropies normalized by the respective thermodynamic limit values turn out to be little sensitive to the spin value. Attention is drawn to magnetocaloric properties of systems of selected cluster shapes. |
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Keywords: | Ising antiferromagnet Triangular lattice Spin cluster Geometrical frustration Residual entropy |
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