A cumulant-like expansion for the entropy of an
N-spin system is presented. The successive terms in the expansion relate to successively higher orders of statistical association among spins. It is proved that for any Ising system of general dimensionality with ferromagnetic interactions of arbitrary range, the first two terms in the entropy expansion provide a lower bound for the exact entropy. A corollary of the theorem is that the lower-bound property is also valid for any two-sublattice Ising system with antiferromagnetic interactions between sublattices. An example is given which illustrates the fact that the vanishing of the two-spin cumulant (correlation) does not necessarily imply that the spins are statistically independent. The sum of the first two terms in the expansion is compared numerically with the exact entropy of an
N-spin chain (and also a ring) with nearest-neighbor ferromagnetic or antiferromagnetic Ising interactions. The comparison, which measures the validity of a Kirkwood-type truncation in this context, is favorable only at sufficiently high temperatures.
We consider
1/d expansions for classical spin systems based on the vertex renormalized linked cluster expansion (LCE). The free multiplicities of the LCE graphs on a hypercubic lattice in an arbitrary dimension d are calculated using generating functions. The technique is applied to the Ising model and to a two-component classical lattice gas corresponding to an extended Hubbard model at half filling in the zero-bandwidth limit. We use a resummation of the LCE to generate
1/d expansions for the equation of state and for the critical temperature. The method, which is rather general and applicable to a wide range of models, proves convenient for calculating asymptotic power series expansions in
1/d. The vertex renormalized expansion is shown to break down at low temperature in higher order approximations, barring attempts to construct simple approximations that are both self-consistent and exact to some finite order in
1/d.A general perturbation theory of the statistics of spin interactions is developed in the form of a linked cluster expansion with particular emphasis on the Ising model. The theory applies to the evaluation of the expectation value of arbitrary spin functions as well as of the free energy. The thermodynamical consistency of the perturbation expansion is shown to arise from (1) variational principles satisfied by the free energy after a "renormalization procedure" has been carried out and (2) a generalized "Ward Identity" between renormalized quantities. These results are used to discuss inconsistencies in recent high-density theories of ferromagnetism and an improved theory obtained by the summation of all the convolution diagrams (nodal expansion) is briefly presented. The applicability of the method to general quantum mechanical many-body problems, including the theory of the Heisenberg model of ferromagnetism, is shown.
To avoid the difficulties with the usual type of (canonical) high-temperature series which arise when T<Tc and H=O, it is suggested that a high-temperature expansion be accomplished using the microcanonical ensembles of systems defined as involving only those states having values of the order parameter equal to the temperature-averaged one. The method is applied for the Ising and Heisenberg model utilising the molecular-field picture, and for the Heisenberg model using the spin-wave picture. In the latter case, the spin-wave energy is expanded according to the high-temperature parameter. It is shown that (m,m+1)-type Pade approximants are good at all temperatures. It is found that the longitudinal susceptibility chi L, diverges like H-1/2 at T<Tc; consequently, the critical exponent gamma ' no longer holds. A new critical exponent, gamma is defined as scaling the reduced susceptibility, chi 0=H1/2chi L. Deriving the scaling-law relating gamma with beta and delta , gamma is estimated as 0.18.
A new and simple diagrammatic expansion is developed for the free energy of the Ising model with arbitrary spin and range of interaction. The contribution of each diagram is a product of (1) the reciprocal of the order of the symmetry group of the diagram, (2) a product of semi-invariants, with a factor
Mn for each spin in the diagram
n being the number of bonds joined to that spin) and (3) a sum of products $\ensuremath{\Sigma}{i,j,k,\ensuremath{\cdots}}^{}(2\ensuremath{\beta}{J}_{\mathrm{ij}})(2\ensuremath{\beta}{J}_{\mathrm{kl}})\ensuremath{\cdots}$, where $2\ensuremath{\beta}{J}_{\mathrm{ij}}$ corresponds to a bond between spins
i and
j, and where the summation is carried out with no restrictions on the summation indices (i.e., no "excluded volume" corrections). The expansion variables are the spin deviation operators ${\ensuremath{\sigma}}_{i}\ensuremath{\equiv}\overline{S}\ensuremath{-}{S}_{\mathrm{iz}}$. The quantity
S is chosen to eliminate a large class of diagrams; this choice also minimizes the corresponding free-energy contribution and implies
S=〈Siz〉. By further renormalization of the vertices all reducible (i.e., simply articulated) diagrams are eliminated. To zero order the molecular field solution is obtained. The next approximation consists of the summation of renormalized simple loop diagrams. The justification of this choice of diagrams rests, at low temperature, on the decrease of the value of the higher order semi-invariants, on the relationship of these loop diagrams to the random phase approximation, and on the agreement with the rigorous low-temperature series result. At the Curie temperature the same choice of diagrams is justified by a modification of Brout's
z1 criterion, so that the expansion can be viewed as an expansion in
z1, where
z is the effective number of spins interacting with a given spin. Finally the choice of loop diagrams is justified at high temperature by exact agreement to second order in
TTc (and by a very close agreement to fourth order) with the rigorous high-temperature series expansion. Thus the theory agrees with rigorous results in the low-temperature and paramagnetic regions and has a well-defined criterion of validity in the intermediate temperature region. For nearest-neighbor interactions and spin \textonehalf{} the specific heat is continuous through the Curie temperature, with an infinite slope on the low-temperature side of the transition.
We consider the Ising spin glass for the arbitrary spin S with the short-ranged interaction using the Bethe-Peierls approximation previously formulated by Serva and Paladin [Phys. Rev. E. 54, 4637 (1996)] for the same system but limited to S=1/2. Results obtained by us for arbitrary S are not a simple generalization of those for S=1/2. In this paper we mainly concentrate our studies on the calculation of the critical temperature and the linear susceptibility in the paramagnetic phase as functions of the dimension of the system and spin number S. These dependences are illustrated by corresponding plots.