Anomalous Magnetocaloric Properties of the Spin-1/2 Ising Model on a Decorated Square Lattice in a Vicinity of Second-Order Phase Transition

Magnetocaloric properties of the spin-1/2 Ising model on a decorated square lattice in a transverse magnetic field are investigated by the use of a generalized decoration-iteration transformation, which establishes a rigorous mapping correspondence with the zero-field spin-1/2 Ising model on a square lattice. The temperature dependence of the entropy, the isothermal entropy change and the adiabatic temperature change display anomalous singular behavior in a vicinity of a second-order phase transition. The large inverse magnetocaloric effect can be found in the isothermal entropy change within the temperature interval, which is delimited by the critical temperatures at zero and non-zero transverse fields.