Annual Conference on Magnetism and Magnetic Materials (MMM)
The Ising Model with a Transverse Field
Yung‐Li Wang, James W. Johnson
Abstract
The Ising Model in a transverse field is investigated employing a field theoretical diagrammatic technique. The diagrams are classified with respect to a high density parameter 1/z, where z is the number of spins interacting with a given spin. The energy spectrum of collective excitations has been obtained both in the disordered phase and in the ordered phase. Summation of the chain diagrams (of order 1) reproduces the previous results. We have calculated the contributions of all diagrams of order 1/z and showed that the RPA commonly used has failed to include consistently a class of diagrams which reflect the kinematics of spin operators. The damping of the excitation waves is also obtained.