An exact calculation of the transverse susceptibility for an antiferromagnetic Ising $\Delta$ chain

Abstract

We study the transverse susceptibility of the fully frustrated antiferromagnetic Ising $\Delta$-chain, extending Minami's transfer-matrix method for the transverse susceptibility of general-type Ising linear-chains [JPSJ 67,1998,2255]. For transverse fields $\Gamma_1$ on tip spin sites and $\Gamma_2$ on bottom spin sites, we calculate zero-field transverse-susceptibilities $\chi_{tip}^x=\lim_{\Gamma_1,\Gamma_2 -> 0}M_{tip}^x/\Gamma_1$ and $\chi_{bottom}^x=\lim_{\Gamma_1,\Gamma_2 -> 0}M^x_{bottom}/\Gamma_2$, where $M_{tip (bottom)}^x$ denotes the magnetization for tip (bottom) spin sites. Both the transverse susceptibilities follow Curie's law at low temperatures. We also calculate $\chi_{bottom}^x(\Gamma_1>0)$, transverse susceptibility of the bottom spin chain under finite tip-spin transverse-fields, to understand the Curie type behavior in the zero-field susceptibility. Using the second-order perturbation theory, we discuss the $\Gamma_1$ dependence of $\chi_{bottom}^x(\Gamma_1)$ at zero temperature.