Journal of Applied Physics
The antiferromagnetic Ising model in a magnetic field: Linked-cluster expansion analysis
Christopher D. Wentworth, Y. L. Wang
Abstract
The mean-field approximation of the critical behavior of the antiferromagnetic Ising model in a magnetic field shows that the critical field increases first at low temperature. However, the exact solution of a decorated square lattice proves that the critical field rapidly decreases with increasing temperature for the two-dimensional lattice. Three-dimensional lattices of this model have been studied as well using the high temperature expansion, low temperature expansion, and Monte Carlo simulation. The results are different. In this article we have investigated the critical field of the body centered cubic lattice of this model using the linked-cluster expansion technique. An eighth-order perturbation series for the free energy has been calculated. The magnetization and staggered magnetic susceptibility series have been calculated from the free energy. These series have been analyzed using Padé approximants to obtain the phase diagram in the field-temperature plane. A comparison is made with Monte Carlo simulation calculations.