Acta Physica Polonica A
Effective Field Methods for Magnetic Systems
G. Kamieniarz, Raf Dekeyser, Grzegorz Musiał
Abstract
The self-consistency conditions inherent in the mean-field approximation are extended to take into account some pair correlations.Ii is shown that this extension is systematically improvable and applicable to the spin systems with short-range interactions in the entire temperature region.With two correlations included and the renormalization-group ideas implemented, the critical properties of the Ising model are satisfactorily revealed.Moreover, the improved estimates of the thermodynamical quantities for the quantum linear XY model from the finite-size calculations are found down to very low temperatures.