Magnetization plateau as a result of the uniform and gradual electron doping in a coupled spin-electron double-tetrahedral chain

TL;DR

This paper investigates how uniform and gradual electron doping in a coupled spin-electron double-tetrahedral chain induces various magnetization plateaux and phase transitions at zero and low temperatures, revealing complex ground-state behavior.

Contribution

It provides a rigorous analysis of the ground-state phases and magnetization plateaux resulting from electron doping in a coupled spin-electron model with a double-tetrahedral structure.

Findings

Identification of one chiral and seven non-chiral phases at zero temperature.

Observation of rational magnetization plateaux at one-third and one-half saturation.

Discovery of eleven distinct ground-state regions influenced by electron doping.

Abstract

The double-tetrahedral chain in a longitudinal magnetic field, whose nodal lattice sites occupied by the localized Ising spins regularly alternate with triangular plaquettes with the dynamics described by the Hubbard model, is rigorously investigated. It is demonstrated that the uniform change of electron concentration controlled by the chemical potential in a combination with the competition between model parameters and the external magnetic field leads to the formation of one chiral and seven non-chiral phases at the absolute zero temperature. Rational plateaux at one-third and one-half of the saturation magnetization can also be identified in the low-temperature magnetization curves. On the other hand, the gradual electron doping results in eleven different ground-state regions which distinguish from each other by the evolution of the electron distribution during this process. Several doping-dependent magnetization plateaux are observed in the magnetization process as a result of the continuous change of electron content in the model.