We show the way perturbation procedures originated by Brout and Hemmer and further developed by Lebowitz and co-workers can be used to study the critical behavior of lattice systems with a potential
v(r) having a weak, long-ranged tail that approaches ${\ensuremath{\gamma}}^{d}\ensuremath{\phi}(\ensuremath{\gamma}\mathrm{r})$ as $\ensuremath{\gamma}$ approaches zero, where
d is dimensionality. We consider both the Ising and the spherical models, and note that the results for the latter model are also those that follow from the Ornstein-Zernike assumption that the direct correlation function behaves like $\ensuremath{-}\frac{v(\mathrm{r})}{\mathrm{kT}}$, when $v(\mathrm{r})\ensuremath{\ll}\mathrm{kT}$. We recover by a graph technique the previously known result that in one dimension, quantities of interest such as the inverse correlation length $\ensuremath{\kappa}$ cannot be expanded in $\ensuremath{\gamma}$ at the mean-field critical temperature
T0 and density ${\ensuremath{\rho}}_{0}$ that characterize the critical point in the $\ensuremath{\gamma}\ensuremath{\rightarrow}0$ limit. Instead, at (${T}_{0}, {\ensuremath{\rho}}_{0}$), $\ensuremath{\kappa}\ensuremath{\sim}{\ensuremath{\gamma}}^{\frac{4}{3}}$ as $\ensuremath{\gamma}\ensuremath{\rightarrow}0$. This is true for both the Ising and the spherical models. In the two-dimensional spherical model, we find $\ensuremath{\kappa}$ to vary as ${\ensuremath{\gamma}}^{2}{[\mathrm{ln}(\frac{1}{\ensuremath{\gamma}})]}^{\frac{1}{2}}$ when $\ensuremath{\gamma}\ensuremath{\rightarrow}0$, while in three dimensions $\ensuremath{\kappa}\ensuremath{\sim}{\ensuremath{\gamma}}^{\frac{5}{2}}$. In the Ising case for
d=1, we characterize topologically the infinite sum of graphs that contribute to the $\ensuremath{\kappa}\ensuremath{\sim}{\ensuremath{\gamma}}^{\frac{4}{3}}$ term in the expansion of the pair correlation function. (In the spherical model, a chain graph gives the entire contribution to the pair correlation function for all
d). For
d=3 we do not attempt to deal with the correlation length in the Ising case, but instead consider the shift in the critical temperature as $\ensuremath{\gamma}\ensuremath{\rightarrow}0$. We find that the spherical-model result that gives a shift of order ${\ensuremath{\gamma}}^{3}$ is exact to that order in $\ensuremath{\gamma}$ for the Ising model. We also find that the lowest-order correction to the spherical-model result is of the form ($\mathrm{const}{\ensuremath{\gamma}}^{6}\mathrm{ln}(\mathrm{const}\ensuremath{\gamma})$, in agreement with recent work by Thouless; but in general we expect to find terms of order ${\ensuremath{\gamma}}^{4}$ and ${\ensuremath{\gamma}}^{5}$ from the spherical-model result dominating this correction.
The pair correlation function g(r,r′) is derived in the mean-field approximation for a ‘‘random-exchange’’ Ising ferromagnet with long-range spatial correlations in the disorder. The static structure factor S(q) describing the intensity of scattered electromagnetic radiation or neutrons is then calculated. The inadequacy of a mean-field treatment is demonstrated, and the physical aspects of renormalization are discussed. From a pedagogical perspective, this problem offers a contemporary application of a number of techniques typically encountered in an advanced undergraduate or first-year graduate course in mathematical physics and can be used at that level to introduce the concept of renormalization
Critical behavior of Ising ferromagnetic systems with the competition between short- and long-range interactions near the point of a second-order phase transition has been investigated. The effects of long-range interaction lead to the need to calculate the influence of next-nearest spins, which lie inside the sphere of a specific radius. The study was carried out for a power law of decreaseing the exchange integral with distance for a three-dimensional Ising model with a cubic lattice. A comparison with the results of a field-theoretical approach and data of real experiments has been carried out. It has been shown that the critical temperature grows linearly with an increase in the parameters of long-range interaction. Critical exponents have been calculated at different parameters of long-range interaction. It is shown that at small dimensions of a system it is the short-range interaction that exerts the dominant effect on the critical behavior of the system. With an increase in the linear dimension of the system, long-range forces begin to dominate.