Low-temperature series expansions for the FCC Ising antiferromagnet

Abstract
Investigates, by low-temperature series expansions, a spin-1/2 Ising model on a face-centred cubic lattice and antiferromagnetic nearest-neighbour coupling and a small second-neighbour interaction, J2. The high ground state degeneracy, which exists for J2=0, is removed when the corresponding free energies are evaluated at finite temperature. The only stable phases for J2 not too large are two simple antiferromagnetic arrangements, corresponding to the ground states for J2>0 and for J2<0. No other phases, with longer periodicity, appear at finite temperature, in contrast to the three-dimensional ANNNI model.