FLAT-BAND FERROMAGNETISM;
ELECTRON GROUND-STATES;
LOCALIZED-MAGNON STATES;
KAGOME LATTICE;
SATURATED FERROMAGNETISM;
SPIN LATTICES;
LINE GRAPHS;
ANTIFERROMAGNET;
MAGNETS;
BASICS;
D O I:
10.1103/PhysRevB.81.014421
中图分类号:
T [工业技术];
学科分类号:
08 ;
摘要:
We consider the repulsive Hubbard model on three highly frustrated one-dimensional lattices-saw-tooth chain and two kagome chains-with completely dispersionless (flat) lowest single-electron bands. We construct the complete manifold of exact many-electron ground states at low electron fillings and calculate the degeneracy of these states. As a result, we obtain closed-form expressions for low-temperature thermodynamic quantities around a particular value of the chemical potential mu(0). We discuss specific features of thermodynamic quantities of these ground-state ensembles such as residual entropy, an extra low-temperature peak in the specific heat, and the existence of ferromagnetism and paramagnetism. We confirm our analytical results by comparison with exact-diagonalization data for finite systems.