Study of Critical Phenomena by Spin-Cluster Approximation Series: Ising Spin System
Hiroshi Mano, Katsumi Nakao
A series of spin-cluster approximation which is a mean field type approximation is derived systematically on the basis of a spin-cluster expansion formula of the free energy. Mean field critical temperature and mean field critical coefficients are calculated by the spin-cluster approximation for the two-, three- and more than four-dimensional ferromagnetic Ising systems. Analyzing them by the coherent anomaly method, the critical temperature and the critical exponents α, β, γ and δ are estimated. Accuracy of estimated values in this method are comparable to those given by other methods such as the high temperature series analysis. The present theory provides a new and useful tool to study the critical phenomena, especially of three-dimensional systems.
Journal of the Physical Society of Japan•Feb 15, 1991•6 citations