The effect of the canting of local anisotropy axes on the ground-state phase diagram and magnetization of a ferrimagnetic chain with regularly alternating Ising and Heisenberg spins is exactly examined in an arbitrarily oriented magnetic field. It is shown that individual contributions of the Ising and Heisenberg spins to the total magnetization basically depend on the spatial orientation of the magnetic field and the canting angle between two different local anisotropy axes of the Ising spins.
We introduce a spin ladder model incorporating localized and delocalized spins, which is exactly solvable using the decoration-iteration and transfer-matrix techniques. Quantum correlations between delocalized spins induce an antiferromagnetic coupling between the spin chains that competes with a direct ferromagnetic exchange coupling. A resulting kinetically-driven frustration is predominant in the regime of low temperatures and large hopping amplitudes. We provide the full ground-state phase diagram, as well as the frustration diagram on distinct coupling regimes.
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