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Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics

Pecularities of Bethe-like approximations and long-range-interaction Ising models

James L. Monroe

Published Aug 12, 2003• 2 citations
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Abstract

The mean-field approximation and the Bethe approximation are two of the most often used approximations when one wants to obtain approximations of the phase diagrams and the critical temperature of lattice spin systems. Both can and have often been generalized to produce what are known as cluster mean-field and Bethe approximations. Generally, three characteristics are associated with these approximations. First, they give upper bounds to the critical temperature; second, considering larger clusters will result in better approximations; and third, the Bethe approximation is better than the corresponding mean-field approximation. We show what we believe to be a rather surprising result that, for one-dimensional Ising models with algebraically decaying interactions falling off slowly enough, the Bethe cluster approximations violate all three of these characteristics.

DOI
10.1103/physreve.68.027103

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We consider Ising models with long-range ferromagnetic pair interactions decaying as for . We first find approximate values for the critical temperature. We use a cluster mean-field approach combined with finite-size scaling and Vanden Broeck and Schwartz transformations. For we find which can be compared with recent results of Luijten and Blöte who found , and which is two orders of magnitude more accurate than any previous results. Since we use a mean-field cluster approximation as part of our approach, the accuracy for larger values of decreases significantly. In addition to we obtain approximate values for the critical exponents , and using the coherent anomaly method. For we obtain , , and - all extremely close to the predictions of renormalization group calculations which say that these exponents should take on their classical values for this value of .
Motivated by a recent proposal of a Bethe approximation for the triangular Ising antiferromagnet [Phys. Rev. B 56, 8241 (1997)], which seems to predict a disordered phase at any temperature in zero field, we analyze in some detail several mean-field-like approximations for this model, namely, the Bethe approximation itself, the cluster variation method, and the hard-spin mean-field theory. We show (i) that the disordered phase predicted by the Bethe approximation is unphysical at low enough temperature because of a negative entropy; (ii) how the results of the cluster variation method (namely, zero-temperature entropy and critical temperature of the spurious transition) converge to the exact ones for increasing cluster size; (iii) that it is possible to construct a cluster variation approximation which yields a disordered phase which is stable down to zero temperature; (iv) a few, so far unknown, zero-temperature results (entropy and internal energy) of the hard-spin mean-field theory.
Motivated by a recent proposal of a Bethe approximation for the triangular Ising antiferromagnet [Phys. Rev. B {\bf 56}, 8241 (1997)], which seems to predict a disordered phase at any temperature in zero field, we analyze in some detail several mean-field like approximations for this model, namely the Bethe approximation itself, the cluster variation method and the hard-spin mean-field theory. We show: (i) that the disordered phase predicted by the Bethe approximation is unphysical at low enough temperature because of a negative entropy; (ii) how the results of the cluster variation method (namely, zero temperature entropy and critical temperature of the spurious transition) converge to the exact ones for increasing cluster size; (iii) that it is possible to construct a cluster variation approximation which yields a disordered phase which is stable down to zero temperature; (iv) a few, so far unknown, zero temperature results (entropy and internal energy) of the hard-spin mean-field theory.
We obtain approximations for the critical temperature ( T c ) of q -state ferromagnetic Potts models on one-dimensional lattices with algebraically decaying ferromagnetic pair interactions, i.e. decaying as 1/ r , with 1< 2. Initially we use a cluster mean-field method to get approximations to the critical temperature and we look at increasingly large clusters. This gives us a sequence of ever more accurate approximate values which can be used as input to various extrapolation algorithms. We see that as the interaction decreases more slowly and the value of q increases we obtain more and more accurate T c estimates. Our best estimates we believe to be correct to four-figure accuracy.
We introduce a method for computing corrections to the Bethe approximation for spin models on arbitrary lattices. Unlike cluster variational methods, the new approach takes into account fluctuations on all length scales. The derivation of the leading correction is explained and applied to two simple examples: the ferromagnetic Ising model on d -dimensional lattices, and the spin glass on random graphs (both in their high-temperature phases). In the first case we rederive the well known Ginzburg criterion and the upper critical dimension. In the second, we compute finite-size corrections to the free energy.
The mean-field approximation is at the heart of our understanding of complex systems, despite its fundamental limitation of completely neglecting correlations between the elementary constituents. In a recent work [Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 130401 (2016)], we have shown that in quantum many-body systems at finite temperature, two-point correlations can be formally separated into a thermal part and a quantum part and that quantum correlations are generically found to decay exponentially at finite temperature, with a characteristic, temperature-dependent quantum coherence length. The existence of these two different forms of correlation in quantum many-body systems suggests the possibility of formulating an approximation, which affects quantum correlations only, without preventing the correct description of classical fluctuations at all length scales. Focusing on lattice boson and quantum Ising models, we make use of the path-integral formulation of quantum statistical mechanics to introduce such an approximation, which we dub quantum mean-field (QMF) approach, and which can be readily generalized to a cluster form (cluster QMF or cQMF). The cQMF approximation reduces to cluster mean-field theory at T=0T=0T=0, while at any finite temperature it produces a family of systematically improved, semi-classical approximations to the quantum statistical mechanics of the lattice theory at hand. Contrary to standard MF approximations, the correct nature of thermal critical phenomena is captured by any cluster size. In the two exemplary cases of the two-dimensional quantum Ising model and of two-dimensional quantum rotors, we study systematically the convergence of the cQMF approximation towards the exact result, and show that the convergence is typically linear or sublinear in the boundary-to-bulk ratio of the clusters as $T\ensuremath{\rightarrow}0$, while it becomes faster than linear as TTT grows. These results pave the way towards the development of semiclassical numerical approaches based on an approximate, yet systematically improved account of quantum correlations.