Physical review. B, Condensed matter
Effect of long-range interactions on the critical behavior of the continuous Ising model
E. Bayong, H. T. Diep
Abstract
Critical behavior of the one- and two-dimensional general continuous Ising models with long-range ferromagnetic interactions decaying as ${1/r}^{d+\ensuremath{\sigma}}$ is studied using a histogram Monte Carlo technique. A continuous Ising model means that a spin can take any value between $\ensuremath{-}1$ and 1. It is found that the system exhibits a second-order phase transition with nonstandard critical exponents which depend on $\ensuremath{\sigma}.$ Results for various values of $\ensuremath{\sigma}$ will be shown and compared to predictions from renormalization-group theory. Though there is an agreement with the overall tendency predicted, there are several fundamental differences. Discussion is given.