Rigorous studies on magnetic susceptibilities of a defective finite Ising chain
Exact solution of the magnetic susceptibility for an S = 1/2 defective finite Ising chain is obtained by employing the transfer matrix method. The thermal dependence of susceptibility multiplied by temperature for the chain coupled to different magnetic impurities is investigated at all T ≥ 0. The results show that in the zero temperature limit the product of these two quantities equals the square of the net spin, demonstrating that Curie’s constants are truly invariant at low temperatures. The intrinsic properties of net spin are also reflected through their different responses to the parity of chain length at low temperature. In addition, the impacts of various host–impurity couplings as well as single-ion anisotropies on the susceptibility are discussed as well.