Physical review. B, Condensed matter
Variational cumulant expansion for the Heisenberg model with the critical temperature determined to third order
Ruijie Liu, T. L. Chen
Abstract
The variational-cumulant-expansion (VCE) method is adopted to calculate the Heisenberg model. The free energy of the model is expanded to the third order, and the analytical formulas for the critical temperature ${\mathit{T}}_{\mathit{c}}$ are given for each order. The first order of VCE corresponds to the mean-field theory, the second order gives the same result for ${\mathit{T}}_{\mathit{c}}$ as the 1/z expansion, and the third order gives a more complicated correction. As a comparison, the results of the two-dimensional (2D) Ising model for VCE to the seventh order are shown. We carry out a trial to predict the critical temperature of the infinite order of the VCE, and get a very accurate result for the 2D Ising model. A prediction of ${\mathit{T}}_{\mathit{c}}$ for the Heisenberg model is also made.