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Journal of Physics C Solid State Physics

Improved product average decomposition method for the Ising ferromagnet with two- and four-spin interaction

O Mitran

Published Nov 28, 1979• 3 citations
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Abstract

Two improvements to a previous calculation of the transition temperature for the three-dimensional Ising ferromagnet with combined two- and four-spin interaction are presented. The first improvement follows from the complete implementation of a refined product average decomposition (PAD) method which distinguishes between nearest-neighbour and non-nearest-neighbour pairs. The second improvement comes from a comparison of the value for the ordinary two-spin interaction average of order four calculated using the PAD method, with its more accurate value calculated using a critical correlation-function approximation method. The comparison with the available values of the transition temperature for the FCC lattice obtained from low-temperature expansions shows that the errors are below 0.1% at alpha = infinity ( alpha =J 4 /J 2 ), below 5.8% for alpha <or=2, and below 2.4% for alpha <or=1. At alpha =0 the errors are less than 0.3%. For intermediate values of alpha (4<or= alpha <or=8, for example) the errors are about 11%.

DOI
10.1088/0022-3719/12/22/028

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We have calculated the low-temperature series expansions of the spontaneous magnetization and the zero-field susceptibility of the square-lattice ferromagnetic Ising model with first-neighbour interaction J1 and second-neighbour interaction J2 to the 30th and 26th order respectively by computer. Our results extend the previous calculations by Lee and Lin to six more orders. We use the Padé approximants to estimate the critical exponents and the critical temperature for different ratios of R = J2/J1. The estimated critical temperature as a function of R agrees with the estimation by Oitmaa from high-temperature series expansions.
The two-state Ising model with nearest-neighbour bilinear exchange constant J (2) , three-spin coupling constant J (3) and four-spin coupling constant J (4) is studied using the effective-field approximation. The temperature variation in spontaneous magnetization is studied for different coordination numbers z and for various values of the parameters alpha =J (3) /J (2) and alpha '=J (4) /J (2) . It is seen that, in the absence of three-spin coupling, there exists a critical value of alpha ' (say, alpha ' c ) above which the magnetization becomes double valued at and beyond the Curie temperature T c , forming a bulge near T c which indicates the occurrence of a first-order transition. The expressions for alpha ' c for z=3, 4, 6 are derived and it is found that alpha ' c increases as z increases. In the absence of four-spin coupling it is found that first-order transitions appear for alpha >or=0. The magnetization curves are also studied for the case when all the interactions are present. The results are discussed with reference to those obtained from the molecular-field approximation.
A generalised non-uniform magnetic field method is used to derive, from the linearisation assumption of a new theory for the Ising ferromagnet, a set of critical correlation-function approximations (CCFA) which express the higher-order correlations in terms of the second- and fourth-order correlations. This set is found to coincide at least for the first five relations, with an earlier CCFA set which was suggested by a term-by-term comparison of the second- and fourth-order equations of the theory, and which was justified a posteriori by the accurate results for the transition temperature to which it leads.