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Australian Journal of Physics

Some Algebraic Techniques for obtaining Low-temperature Series Expansions

Ian Graham Enting

Published Dec 1, 1978• 38 citations
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Abstract

It is shown that low-temperature series expansions for lattice models in statistical mechanics can be obtained from a consideration of only connected strong subgraphs of the lattice. This general result is used as the basis of a linked-cluster form of the method of partial generating functions and also as the basis for extending the finite lattice method of series expansion to low-temperature series.

DOI
10.1071/ph780515

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A linked-cluster expansion technique for spin systems has been used to obtain the free energy, the magnetization, and the susceptibility series for three Ising systems: (1) The Ising model; (2) The Blume-Capel model; and (3) The Blume-Emery-Griffiths (BEG) model. Each Hamiltonian is first divided into a single-ion potential and a term describing the interaction of the spin fluctuations. Only the latter is treated as perturbation in the series expansion. In the parametric phase our series reduces to the exact high-temperature series. However, in the ordered phase the same series can be used to study the low temperature behavior, such as the variation of the magnetization with temperature. The analysis of the eighth-order series for systems (1) and (2) show results in excellent agreement with the previous ones obtained from the high-temperature and low-temperature series. The series analysis for the BEG model shows quite different behavior from that predicted by the mean-field approximation.