Abstract
We study the phase diagram of a symmetric spin-1/2 Heisenberg diamond chain with additional cyclic four-spin exchange interactions. The presented analysis supplemented by numerical exact-diagonalization results for finite periodic clusters implies a rich phase diagram containing, apart from standard magnetic and spin-liquid phases, two different tetramer-dimer phases as well as an exotic fourfold degenerate dimerized phase. The characteristics of the established spin phases as well as the nature of quantum phase transitions are discussed as well.
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