A Quasi-exact Formula for Ising critical temperatures on Hypercubic Lattices

We use an m-vicinity method to examine Ising models on hypercube lattices of high dimensions d>=3. This method is applicable for both short-range and long-range interactions. We introduce a small parameter, which determines whether the method can be used when calculating the free energy. When we account for interaction with the nearest neighbors only, the value of this parameter depends on the dimension of the lattice d. We obtain an expression for the critical temperature in...

The high-temperature expansion coefficients of the ordinary and the higher susceptibilities of the spin-1/2 nearest-neighbor Ising model are calculated exactly up to the 20th order for a general d-dimensional (hyper)-simple-cubical lattice. These series are analyzed to study the dependence of critical parameters on the lattice dimensionality. Using the general $d$ expression of the ordinary susceptibility, we have more than doubled the length of the existing series expansion ...

We have extended through beta^{23} the high-temperature expansion of the second field derivative of the susceptibility for Ising models of general spin, with nearest-neighbor interactions, on the simple cubic and the body-centered cubic lattices. Moreover the expansions for the nearest-neighbor correlation function, the susceptibility and the second correlation moment have been extended up to beta^{25}. Taking advantage of these new data, we can improve the accuracy of direct...

A careful Monte Carlo investigation of the phase transition very close to the critical point (T -> Tc, H -> 0) in relatively large d = 3, s = 1/2 Ising lattices did produce critical exponents beta = 0.3126(4) =~ 5/16, delta^{-1} = 0.1997(4) =~ 1/5 and gamma_{3D} = 1.253(4) =~ 5/4. Our results indicate that, within experimental error, they are given by simple fractions corresponding to the linear interpolations between the respective two-dimensional (Onsager) and four-dimensio...

We take the occasion of this article to review one hundred years of the physical and mathematical study of the Ising model. The model, introduced by Lenz in 1920, has been at the cornerstone of many major revolutions in statistical mechanics. We wish, through its history, to outline some of these amazing developments. We restrict our attention to the ferromagnetic nearest-neighbour model on the hypercubic lattice, and essentially focus on what happens at or near the so-called...

We present a status report on the ongoing analysis of the 3D Ising model with nearest-neighbor interactions using the Monte Carlo Renormalization Group (MCRG) and finite size scaling (FSS) methods on $64^3$, $128^3$, and $256^3$ simple cubic lattices. Our MCRG estimates are $K_{nn}^c=0.221655(1)(1)$ and $\nu=0.625(1)$. The FSS results for $K^c$ are consistent with those from MCRG but the value of $\nu$ is not. Our best estimate $\eta = 0.025(6)$ covers the spread in the MCRG ...

The finite lattice method of series expansion is generalised to the $q$-state Potts model on the simple cubic lattice. It is found that the computational effort grows exponentially with the square of the number of series terms obtained, unlike two-dimensional lattices where the computational requirements grow exponentially with the number of terms. For the Ising ($q=2$) case we have extended low-temperature series for the partition functions, magnetisation and zero-field su...

It is often assumed that for treating numerical (or experimental) data on continuous transitions the formal analysis derived from the Renormalization Group Theory can only be applied over a narrow temperature range, the "critical region"; outside this region correction terms proliferate rendering attempts to apply the formalism hopeless. This pessimistic conclusion follows largely from a choice of scaling variables and scaling expressions which is traditional but which is ver...

We present highly accurate Monte Carlo results for simple cubic Ising lattices containing up to $256^3$ spins. These results were obtained by means of the Cluster Processor, a newly built special-purpose computer for the Wolff cluster simulation of the 3D Ising model. We find that the magnetization $M(t)$ is perfectly described by $M(t)=(a_0-a_1 t^{\theta} - a_2 t) t^{\beta} $, where $t=(T_{\rm c}-T)/T_{\rm c}$, in a wide temperature range $0.0005 < t < 0.26 $. If there exist...

A unified algebraic structure is shown to exist among various equations for the critical temperatures pertaining to diverse two- and three-dimensional lattices. This isomorphism is a pointer to the straight-forward extension of two-dimensional results to corresponding three dimensional analogues.