arXiv:cond-mat/9904036 · Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics
Exact correlation functions of Bethe lattice spin models in external magnetic fields
Chin‐Kun Hu, N. Sh. Izmailian
Abstract
We develop a transfer matrix method to compute exactly the spin-spin correlation functions $〈{s}_{0}{s}_{n}〉$ of Bethe lattice spin models in the external magnetic field $h$ and for any temperature $T.$ We first compute $〈{s}_{0}{s}_{n}〉$ for the most general spin-$S$ Ising model, which contains all possible single-ion and nearest-neighbor pair interactions. This general spin-$S$ Ising model includes the spin-$\frac{1}{2}$ simple Ising model and the Blume-Emery-Griffiths (BEG) model as special cases. From the spin-spin correlation functions, we obtain functions of correlation length $\ensuremath{\xi}(T,h)$ for the simple Ising model and BEG model, which show interesting scaling and divergent behavior as $\stackrel{\ensuremath{\rightarrow}}{h}0$ and $T$ approaches the critical temperature ${T}_{c}.$ Our method to compute exact spin-spin correlation functions may be applied to other Ising-type models on Bethe and Bethe-like lattices.