Magnetic properties and thermodynamics of decorated Ising chain with pendants of arbitrary spin

Abstract: The decorated Ising chain with pendants of arbitrary spin and the single-ion anisotropy is exactly solved by the transfer matrix method. The solutions reveal abundant novel properties than the conventional one-dimensional Ising model. It is compared with the experimental data of a necklace-like molecule-based magnet, that gives a qualitative consistency. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]