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Critical Behaviour in Many Body Systems.

Cyril Domb

Published Jul 1, 1974• 0 citations
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Abstract

This work has been concentrated on a detailed study of low temperature (and high field) expansions for the simple Ising model. Methods were considered for their derivation and derived long series; these have been analyzed to provide evidence on critical indices. Also studied were the derivation of series expansions for the Ising model with spin S > 1/2 and the corresponding low temperature behavior. Also reported is a study of the configurational problem presented by the Potts model and the planar Potts model. The former model in particular has attracted particular attention recently in relation to the properties of liquid crystals. There is evidence that its behavior differs significantly from that of the Ising model and may in certain circumstances lead to a first order transition. Work has continued with a general program of tabulation of lattice constants for all standard two and three dimensional lattices. (Modified author abstract)

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The finite-lattice method of series expansion is generalized to the q-state Potts model on the simple cubic lattice. It is found that the computational effort grows exponentially with the square of the number of series terms obtained, unlike two-dimensional lattices where the computational requirements grow exponentially with the number of terms. For the Ising (q=2) case the authors have extended the low-temperature series for the partition functions, magnetization and zero-field susceptibility to u 26 from u 20 . The high-temperature series for the zero-field partition function is extended from nu 18 to nu 22 . Subsequent analysis gives critical exponents in agreement with those from field theory.
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The finite lattice method of series expansion is generalised to the qqq-state Potts model on the simple cubic lattice. It is found that the computational effort grows exponentially with the square of the number of series terms obtained, unlike two-dimensional lattices where the computational requirements grow exponentially with the number of terms. For the Ising (q=2q=2q=2) case we have extended low-temperature series for the partition functions, magnetisation and zero-field susceptibility to u26u^{26}u26 from u20u^{20}u20. The high-temperature series for the zero-field partition function is extended from v18v^{18}v18 to v22v^{22}v22. Subsequent analysis gives critical exponents in agreement with those from field theory.
For pt. I see ibid., vol. 5, no. 5, 624. Extended series expansions for the high temperature zero-field susceptibility of the Ising model are given in powers of the usual high temperature counting variable v=tanh K for the simple cubic lattice to v 17 , the body-centred cubic lattice to v 15 , and the face-centred cubic lattice to v 12 , inclusive. The coefficients are analysed by the ratio method and it is estimated that, subject to the implicit assumptions thereof, the critical temperatures correspond to v f =0.21813+or-0.00001 (SC), v f =0.15612+or-0.00003 (BCC) and v f =0.10174+or-0.00001 (FCC). The symptotic behaviour of the coefficients is studied in detail; for the loose-packed lattices the decay of the even-odd oscillation in the ratios is found to be consistent with the assumption that the critical index of the high temperature specific heat is very close to 1/8.