Physica A Statistical Mechanics and its Applications
Duality-based approximation for the critical point of the square lattice Ising ferromagnet within Tsallis statistics
L. R. da Silva, Eugene Stanley
Abstract
Within the generalized thermostatistics of Tsallis, we propose for the spin-12 Ising ferromagnet a transmissivity variable which extends that defined by Tsallis and Levy for thermal magnetic systems. By using this generalized transmissivity as well as duality arguments, we calculate the q-dependence of the critical temperature corresponding to the square lattice, where q is the entropic index (q = 1 reproduces standard thermostatistics). Our approximate results are compared with those previously obtained using renormalization group and mean-field approximation.