Physical review. B, Condensed matter
High-temperature fluctuation expansions for the spin- S XY model on the fcc lattice: A study of spin dependence
S. K. Oh, M. Howard Lee
Abstract
The universality hypothesis for critical phenomena considers spin to be an irrelevant quantity. The spin-$S$ $\mathrm{XY}$ model through its fluctuation series provides a convenient way of directly testing this hypothesis. For $S=\frac{1}{2} \mathrm{and} \ensuremath{\infty}$, it is known from high-temperature series expansions for the fluctuation that $\ensuremath{\gamma}\ensuremath{\approx}\frac{4}{3}$ at both limits. We provide here information on the fluctuation series expansions for intermediate values of spin ranging from $S=1$ to $S={10}^{6}$. Although our series are short, our results seem to be consistent with the idea of spin independence.