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arXiv:2412.18630 · Armenian Journal of Physics

Ansatz for the Two-Dimensional Ising Model in an External Magnetic Field

Moorad Alexanian

Published Dec 20, 2024• 0 citations
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Abstract

An ansatz applied to the two-dimensional Ising model in an external magnetic field h gives rise to an exactly soluble model. The singularity in the magnetization found by Onsager does not survive the presence of the external magnetic field as found earlier by Lee and Yang in 1952. However, the singularity in the heat capacity remains even in the presence of the magnetic field. A surprising result is the presence of negative heat capacity for h > 0.

DOI
10.54503/18291171-2024.17.3-52

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The Ising model in an external magnetic field is one of the most outstanding and intriguing unsolved problems. One of the important properties of the Ising model in an external magnetic field is the Yang-Lee edge singularity. The zeros in the complex magnetic-field plane of the grand partition function of the Ising model on a honeycomb lattice in an external magnetic field are exactly calculated by using the exact integer values for the density of states on L × 2L honeycomb lattices (up to L = 14). The critical line of the Yang-Lee edge singularity of the Ising model on a honeycomb lattice in an external magnetic field is accurately investigated from its Yang-Lee zeros.
We study the complex-temperature phase diagram of the square-lattice Ising model for nonzero external magnetic field H, i.e., for 0\ensuremath{\le}\ensuremath{\mu}\ensuremath{\le}\ensuremath{\infty}, where \ensuremath{\mu}=${\mathit{e}}^{\mathrm{\ensuremath{-}}2\mathrm{\ensuremath{\beta}}\mathit{H}}$. We also carry out a similar analysis for -\ensuremath{\infty}\ensuremath{\le}\ensuremath{\mu}\ensuremath{\le}0. The results for the interval -1\ensuremath{\le}\ensuremath{\mu}\ensuremath{\le}1 provide a way of continuously connecting the two known exact solutions of this model, viz., at \ensuremath{\mu}=1 (Onsager, Yang) and \ensuremath{\mu}=-1 (Lee and Yang). Our methods include numerical calculations of complex-temperature zeros of the partition function and an analysis of low-temperature series expansions. For real nonzero H, the inner branch of a lima\ifmmode \mbox{\c{c}}\else \c{c}\fi{}on bounding the FM phase breaks and forms two complex-conjugate arcs. We study the singularities and associated exponents of thermodynamic functions at the endpoints of these arcs. For \ensuremath{\mu}0, there are two line segments of singularities on the negative and positive u axis, and we carry out a similar study of the behavior at the inner endpoints of these arcs, which constitute the nearest singularities to the origin in this case. Finally, we also determine the exact complex-temperature phase diagrams at \ensuremath{\mu}=-1 on the honeycomb and triangular lattices and discuss the relation between these and the corresponding zero-field phase diagrams. \textcopyright{} 1996 The American Physical Society.