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1Federal University of Lavras, Department of Physics, Institute of Natural Science, Lavras, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Abstract:
We study the coupled twin-diamond chain, a decorated one-dimensional Ising model motivated by the magnetic structure of Cu_{2}(TeO_{3})_{2}Br_{2}. By applying an exact mapping to an effective Ising chain, we obtain the full thermodynamic description of the system through a compact transfer-matrix formulation. The ground-state analysis reveals five distinct phases, including two frustrated sectors with extensive degeneracy. These frustrated regions give rise to characteristic entropy plateaus and separate the ordered phases in the zero-temperature diagram. At low temperatures the model exhibits peculiar sharp yet continuous variations of entropy, magnetization, and response functions, reflecting clear signatures of pseudotransition behavior. The coupled twin-diamond chain thus provides an exactly solvable setting in which competing local configurations and internal frustration lead to pronounced dual pseudocritical features in one dimension.
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