On the thermodynamic geometry of one-dimensional spin-3/2 lattice models

Abstract

Four-dimensional state space geometry is worked out for the exactly solved one-dimensional spin-3/2 lattice with a Blume-Emery-Griffiths (BEG) Hamiltonian as well as a more general one with a term containing a non-zero field coupling to the octopole moments. The phase behaviour of the spin-3/2 chain is also explored extensively and novel phenomena suggesting anomalies in the hyperscaling relation and in the decay of fluctuations are reported for a range of parameter values. Using the method of constrained fluctuations worked out earlier in \cite{asknbads,riekan1} three sectional curvatures and a $3d$ curvature are obtained and shown to separately encode dipolar, quadrupolar and octopolar correlations both near and away from pseudo-criticality. In all instances of a seeming hyperscaling violation the $3d$ scalar curvature is found to encode the correlation length while the relevant $2d$ curvature equals the inverse of singular free energy. For parameter values where the order parameter fluctuation anomalously decays despite a divergence in correlation length the relevant scalar curvature undergoes a sign change to positive values, signalling a possible change in statistics.