Effect of uniaxial single-ion anisotropy on a stability of intermediate magnetization plateaus of a spin-1 Heisenberg diamond cluster

TL;DR

This study investigates how uniaxial single-ion anisotropy affects the stability of intermediate magnetization plateaus in a spin-1 Heisenberg diamond cluster, revealing that anisotropy can significantly alter plateau widths and improve experimental data fitting.

Contribution

It provides the first detailed analysis of the impact of uniaxial single-ion anisotropy on magnetization plateaus in a spin-1 Heisenberg diamond cluster using exact diagonalization.

Findings

Intermediate magnetization plateaus occur at 1/4, 1/2, and 3/4 saturation.

Anisotropy can shrink or eliminate magnetization plateaus.

Weak easy-axis anisotropy improves experimental magnetization curve fits.

Abstract

Ground-state phase diagrams and magnetization curves of a spin-1 Heisenberg diamond cluster with two different coupling constants and uniaxial single-ion anisotropy are investigated in a presence of the external magnetic field with the help of exact diagonalization methods. It is shown that the spin-1 Heisenberg diamond cluster exhibits several remarkable quantum ground states, which are manifested in zero- and low-temperature magnetization curves as intermediate plateaus at one-quarter, one-half and three-quarters of the saturation magnetization. It is found that the width of the fractional magnetization plateaus depends basically on a relative strength of the coupling constants as well as uniaxial single-ion anisotropy, which may substantially shrink or even cause full breakdown of some intermediate magnetization plateaus. It is evidenced that a relatively weak uniaxial single-ion anisotropy of the easy-axis type considerably improves a theoretical fit of low-temperature magnetization curves of the tetranuclear nickel complex [Ni4(CO3)2(aetpy)8](ClO4)4 in a low-field region without spoiling the previous fit based on the fully isotropic Heisenberg model in a high-field region.