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International Journal of Modern Physics B

SYSTEMATIC APPROACH TO CRITICAL PHENOMENA BY THE EXTENDED VARIATIONAL METHOD AND COHERENT-ANOMALY METHOD

Naoki Kawashima, Makoto Katori, Constantino Tsallis, Masuo Suzuki

Published Jun 1, 1990• 4 citations
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Abstract

A general procedure to study critical phenomena of magnetic systems is discussed. It consists of systematic series of Landau-like approximations (extended variational method) and the coherent-anomaly method (CAM). As for susceptibility, the present method is equivalent to the power-series CAM theory. On the other hand, the EVM gives a set of new approximants for other physical quantities. Applications to d-dimensional Ising ferromagnets are also described. The critical points and exponents are estimated with high accuracy.

DOI
10.1142/s0217979290000693

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An analysis of the critical behavior of the three-dimensional Ising model using the coherent-anomaly method (CAM) is presented. Various sources of errors in CAM estimates of critical exponents are discussed, and an improved scheme for the CAM data analysis is tested. Using a set of mean-field type approximations based on the variational series expansion approach, accuracy comparable to the most precise conventional methods has been achieved. Our results for the critical exponents are given by α = 0.108(5), β = 0.327(4), γ = 1.237(4) and δ = 4.77(5).
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Two kinds of systematic mean-field transfer-matrix methods are formulated in the 2-dimensional Ising spin system, by introducing Weiss-like and Bethe-like approximations. All the critical exponents as well as the true critical point can be estimated in these methods following the CAM procedure. The numerical results of the above system are T c * ≃2.271 ( J / k B ), γ=γ'≃1.749, β≃0.131 and δ≃15.1. The specific heat is confirmd to be continuous and to have a logarithmic divergence at the true critical point, i.e., α=α'=0. Thus, the finite-degree-of-approximation scaling ansatz is shown to be correct and very powerful in practical estimations of the critical exponents as well as the true critical point.