Statistical Mechanics of Ferromagnetism; Spherical Model as High-Density Limit
- 15 April 1961
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 122 (2) , 469-474
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrev.122.469
Abstract
It is shown that there is a class of graphs of the Ising model (or (Heisenberg model for ) which is comprised of cycle graphs plus some excluded volume effects which sum to the spherical model. The spherical model, suitably generalized for , was conjectured in a previous work to be the high-density limit of the Ising model, correct to , where is the number of spins in the range of the exchange potential (not restricted to nearest neighbor interactions). measures the range of the exchange potential. This is now proved by examining the omitted graphs. The error is shown to be .
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