Journal of the Physical Society of Japan
Study of Coherent Anomalies and Critical Exponents Based on the Cluster-Variation Method
Makoto Katori, Masuo Suzuki
Abstract
The coherent-anomaly scaling is investigated for the approximations derived on the basis of the cluster-variation method (CVM). All of the mean-field critical coefficients are calculated in the Weiss, the Bethe and the Kikuchi approximations for the three-dimensional Ising model on the simple cubic lattice. The dynamical coefficients of the relaxation time are also obtained in the corresponding approximations for the kinetic Ising model. The non-classical values of critical exponents as well as the true value of critical temperature are estimated by extrapolating these approximants by the coherent-anomaly method. The results suggest that the approximations by the CVM possess the property of coherent-anomaly scaling.