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PHYSICAL REVIEW B
Volume 72, Issue 6, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.72.064453
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The nearest-neighbor antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model is considered for spins s(i)=1/2 and 1 located on the vertices of the dodecahedron and the icosahedron, which belong to the point symmetry group I-h. Taking into account the permutational and spin-inversion symmetries of the Hamiltonian results in a drastic reduction of the dimensionality of the problem, leading to full diagonalization for both clusters. There is a strong signature of the frustration present in the systems in the low-energy spectrum for s(i)=1/2, where the first excited states are singlets. Frustration also results in a doubly peaked specific heat as a function of temperature for the dodecahedron. Furthermore, there is a discontinuity in the magnetization as a function of magnetic field for the dodecahedron, where a specific total spin sector never becomes the ground state in a field. This discontinuity is accompanied by a magnetization plateau. For s(i)=1 both systems again have singlet excitations. The magnetization of the dodecahedron has now two discontinuities in an external field and also magnetization plateaux, and the specific heat of the icosahedron, a two-peak structure as a function of temperature. The similarities between the two systems suggest that the antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model on a larger cluster with the same symmetry, the 60-site cluster, will have similar properties.
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