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Canonical Solution of Classical Magnetic Models with Long-Range Couplings

arXiv:cond-mat/0206173 · doi:10.1088/0305-4470/36/25/301

Abstract

We study the canonical solution of a family of classical spin models on a generic -dimensional lattice; the couplings between two spins decay as the inverse of their distance raised to the power , with . The control of the thermodynamic limit requires the introduction of a rescaling factor in the potential energy, which makes the model extensive but not additive. A detailed analysis of the asymptotic spectral properties of the matrix of couplings was necessary to justify the saddle point method applied to the integration of functions depending on a diverging number of variables. The properties of a class of functions related to the modified Bessel functions had to be investigated. For given , and for any , and lattice geometry, the solution is equivalent to that of the model, where the dimensionality and the geometry of the lattice are irrelevant.

Submitted for publication in Journal of Statistical Physics

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