Abstract

The Ising model describes collective behaviors such as phase transitions and critical phenomena in various physical, biological, economical, and social systems. It is well known that spontaneous phase transition at finite temperature does not exist in the Ising model with short-range interactions in one dimension. Yet, little is known about whether this forbidden phase transition can be approached arbitrarily closely—at fixed finite temperature. Here I use symmetry analysis of the transfer matrix to reveal the existence of spontaneous ultranarrow phase crossover (UNPC) at finite temperature in one class of one-dimensional Ising models on decorated two-leg ladders, in which the crossover temperature T0 is determined solely by on-rung interactions and decorations, while the crossover width 2δT is independently, exponentially reduced (δT=0 means a genuine phase transition) by on-leg interactions and decorations. These findings establish a simple ideal paradigm for realizing an infinite number of one-dimensional Ising systems with spontaneous UNPC at desirable T0, which would be characterized in routine laboratory measurements as a genuine first-order phase transition with large latent heat thanks to the ultranarrow δT (say less than one nanokelvin), paving a way to push the limit in our understanding of phase transitions and the dynamical actions of frustration arbitrarily close to the forbidden regime. Published by the American Physical Society 2024

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