Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics
Cluster-variation–Padé-approximants method and the critical exponents of the fcc Ising model
Alessandro Pelizzola
Abstract
We report results of the application of a recently proposed technique, which combines the cluster variation method (CVM) and Pad\'e approximants, to the analysis of the critical behavior of the face-centered-cubic Ising model. The highest-order CVM approximation ever considered for this lattice is used to estimate magnetization and susceptibility, which are then analyzed by means of Dlog Pad\'e approximants in order to extract information about the critical behavior, taking also into account the effects of confluent singularities. Our results are in good agreement with the most recent simulation and series expansion estimates and require a remarkably small numerical effort. \textcopyright{} 1996 The American Physical Society.