Evidence from exact enumeration series is presented to support the hypothesis that the functional form of spin-spin correlations for three-dimensional zero-field Ising ferromagnets in their high-temperature critical region is independent of lattice and spin magnitude.
High-temperature series for the inverse spin-spin correlation function of the s=21 Ising ferromagnet are presented for the three cubic lattices. Series are tabulated to twelfth order in $K=\ensuremath{\beta}J$ in zero magnetic field and to eighth order in finite field. Direct series expansions for the true correlation length are derived. The critical correlations are analyzed for scaling behavior in both position and momentum space. The critical amplitudes which characterize the correlations both at Tc and in the Ornstein---Zernike region are determined. The Fisher---Burford scattering approximant is found to be consistent with the data. Finally, the consequences of the universality hypothesis are formulated for the correlations. Correlation-amplitude data for the three cubic lattices are shown to be in remarkable agreement with a formulation of universality which requires that the free energy in a region of diameter given by the coherence length be scale independent.
The spin-spin correlation function for the S=21 Ising ferromagnet is evaluated in zero magnetic field and for T>Tc by the method of series expansions. Evidence is presented showing that the scaling of correlations is valid in the (weak) limit $r\ensuremath{\rightarrow}\ensuremath{\infty}$, $\ensuremath{\kappa}r$ fixed, but is not valid in the (strong) limit $\ensuremath{\kappa}a\ensuremath{\rightarrow}0$, $r\ensuremath{\gg}a$, with $\ensuremath{\kappa}r$ arbitrary.
We have extended, from order 12 through order 25, the high-temperature series expansions (in zero magnetic field) for the spin-spin correlations of the spin-S Ising models on the square, simple-cubic and body-centered-cubic lattices. On the basis of this large set of data, we confirm accurately the validity of the scaling and universality hypotheses by resuming several tests which involve the correlation function, its moments and the exponential or the second-moment correlation lengths.
High-temperature series expansions for the Ising model's spin-spin correlation function are found to order (kTJ)12 on the simple cubic, bcc, and fcc latices. Analysis of moment series indicates that the scaling form of the correlation function is correct, at least in the limit $\ensuremath{\kappa}r$ fixed, $\ensuremath{\kappa}\ensuremath{\rightarrow}0$. Values are obtained for the correlation indices $\ensuremath{\nu}$ and $\ensuremath{\eta}$-the latter by two methods, thereby providing a direct check on the scaling law.