Magnetization and spin gap in two-dimensional organic ferrimagnet BIPNNBNO

TL;DR

This paper investigates the magnetization behavior and spin gap in a two-dimensional organic ferrimagnet BIPNNBNO, revealing the role of interchain frustration and non-Lieb-Mattis ferrimagnetism through numerical and analytical methods.

Contribution

It introduces a combined numerical and analytical approach to understand the complex magnetic phases and the stabilization of the singlet phase in BIPNNBNO.

Findings

Identification of the singlet plateau at low magnetic fields.

Interchain frustration stabilizes the singlet phase.

Different effective theories describe the system under varying interchain interaction strengths.

Abstract

A magnetization process in two-dimensional ferrimagnet BIPNNBNO is analyzed. The compound consists of ferrimagnetic (1,1/2) chains coupled by two sorts of antiferromagnetic interactions. Whereas a behavior of the magnetization curve in higher magnetic fields can be understood within a process for the separate ferrimagnetic chain, an appearance of the singlet plateau at lower fields is an example of non-Lieb-Mattis type ferrimagnetism. By using the exact diagonalization technique for a finite clusters of sizes 4x8 and 4x10 we show that the interchain frustration coupling plays an essential role in stabilization of the singlet phase. These results are complemented by an analysis of four cylindrically coupled ferrimagnetic (1,1/2) chains via an abelian bosonization technique and an effective theory based on the XXZ spin-1/2 Heisenberg model when the interchain interactions are sufficiently weak/strong, respectively.