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Extended Scaling for the high dimension and square lattice Ising Ferromagnets (2008)

Abstract
In the high dimension (mean field) limit the susceptibility and the second moment correlation length of the Ising ferromagnet depend on temperature as chi(T)=tau^{-1} and xi(T)=T^{-1/2}tau^{-1/2} exactly over the entire temperature range above the critical temperature T_c, with the scaling variable tau=(T-T_c)/T. For finite dimension ferromagnets temperature dependent effective exponents can be defined over all T using the same expressions. For the canonical two dimensional square lattice Ising ferromagnet it is shown that compact "extended scaling" expressions analogous to the high dimensional limit forms give accurate approximations to the true temperature dependencies, again over the entire temperature range from T_c to infinity. Within this approach there is no cross-over temperature in finite dimensions above which mean-field-like behavior sets in.. Comment: 6 pages, 6 figures

Publication details
Download http://arxiv.org/abs/0802.3011
Repository arXiv (United States)
Keywords Condensed Matter - Statistical Mechanics
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