Magnetic Grüneisen parameter and magnetocaloric properties of a coupled spin-electron double-tetrahedral chain
Abstract
Magnetocaloric effect in a double-tetrahedral chain, in which nodal lattice sites occupied by the localized Ising spins regularly alternate with three equivalent lattice sites available for mobile electrons, is exactly investigated by considering the one-third electron filling and the ferromagnetic Ising exchange interaction between the mobile electrons and their nearest Ising neighbours. The entropy and the magnetic Grüneisen parameter, which closely relate to the magnetocaloric effect, are exactly calculated in order to investigate the relation between the ground-state degeneracy and the cooling efficiency of the hybrid spin-electron system during the adiabatic demagnetization.
- Publication:
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Physics Letters A
- Pub Date:
- October 2015
- DOI:
- 10.1016/j.physleta.2015.07.007
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1509.00635
- Bibcode:
- 2015PhLA..379.2474G
- Keywords:
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- Spin-electron double-tetrahedral chain;
- Magnetocaloric effect;
- Entropy;
- Magnetic Grüneisen parameter;
- Exact results;
- Condensed Matter - Statistical Mechanics
- E-Print:
- 5 pages, 5 figures