title: Exact results for the thermal and magnetic properties of strong coupling ladder compounds.
abstract: We investigate the thermal and magnetic properties of the integrable su(4) ladder model by means of the quantum transfer matrix method. The magnetic susceptibility, specific heat, magnetic entropy, and high field magnetization are evaluated from the free energy derived via the recently proposed method of high temperature expansion for exactly solved models. We show that the integrable model can be used to describe the physics of the strong coupling ladder compounds. Excellent agreement is seen between the theoretical results and the experimental data for the known ladder compounds (5IAP)2CuBr4.2H(2)O, Cu2(C5H12N2)2Cl4, etc.
authors.affiliation: Department of Theoretical Physics, RSPhysSE and Centre for Mathematics and its Applications, MSI, Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200, Australia.
authors.forename: Murray T
authors.initials: MT
authors.lastname: Batchelor
authors.forename: Xi-Wen
authors.initials: XW
authors.lastname: Guan
authors.forename: Norman
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Oelkers
authors.forename: Kazumitsu
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Sakai
authors.forename: Zengo
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Tsuboi
authors.forename: Angela
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Foerster