We develop a transfer matrix method to compute exactly the spin-spin correlation functions
〈s0sn〉 of Bethe lattice spin models in the external magnetic field
h and for any temperature
T. We first compute
〈s0sn〉 for the most general spin-
S Ising model, which contains all possible single-ion and nearest-neighbor pair interactions. This general spin-
S Ising model includes the spin-
21 simple Ising model and the Blume-Emery-Griffiths (BEG) model as special cases. From the spin-spin correlation functions, we obtain functions of correlation length $\ensuremath{\xi}(T,h)$ for the simple Ising model and BEG model, which show interesting scaling and divergent behavior as $\stackrel{\ensuremath{\rightarrow}}{h}0$ and
T approaches the critical temperature
Tc. Our method to compute exact spin-spin correlation functions may be applied to other Ising-type models on Bethe and Bethe-like lattices.
We exactly solve the ferromagnetic spin- 1/2 Ising model on the Bethe lattice in the presence of an external magnetic field by means of the equations of motion method within the Green's function formalism. In particular, such an approach is applied to an isomorphic model of localized Fermi particles interacting via an intersite Coulomb interaction. A complete set of eigenoperators is found together with the corresponding eigenvalues. The Green's functions and the correlation functions are written in terms of a finite set of parameters to be self-consistently determined. A procedure is developed that allows us to exactly fix the unknown parameters in the case of a Bethe lattice with any coordination number z. Nonlocal correlation functions up to four points are also provided together with a study of the relevant thermodynamic quantities.
An exact expression for the spin-spin correlation function is derived for the zero-temperature random-field Ising model defined on a Bethe lattice of arbitrary coordination number.The correlation length describing dynamic spinspin correlations and separated from the intrinsic topological length scale of the Bethe lattice is shown to diverge as a power law at the critical point.The critical exponents governing the behaviour of the correlation length are consistent with the mean-field values found for a hypercubic lattice with dimension greater than the upper critical dimension.