Abstract

A quantum spin model of a delta-chain with ferro- and antiferromagnetic exchange interactions has been analyzed. Special attention has been paid to the analysis of magnetic properties at the critical point that separates the ferro- and ferrimagnetic phases of the ground state. The ground state is macroscopically degenerate in this case, and the entropy at zero temperature is finite. The gap in the excitation spectrum is exponentially small, and the spectrum itself has a multiscale structure that determined the low-temperature thermodynamics. The results obtained are used to analyze the magnetic properties of recently synthesized molecules with a record-breaking spin value of the ground state.

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