“…Meanwhile, some quasi-classical spin models using Ising spin instead of the Heisenberg operators also lead to the analogous pictures of magnetization plateaus. Particularly, those can be rigorously solved by analytical methods, such as the bound-alternating chains, decorated Ising chain and other quasi 1D models, which employ the transfer-matrix method, presenting us rich magnetization images for arbitrary finite temperature and arbitrary values of exchange coupling, the single-ion anisotropy and external magnetic field [6,7,16,22], as well as demonstrating the simplicity of transfer-matrix technique in dealing with the 1D classical models compared with those quantum means-bosonization technique, density matrix renormalization group method, field theory, etc.…”