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Long-range interactions and non-extensivity in ferromagnetic spin models

arXiv:cond-mat/9607210 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.54.R12661

Abstract

The Ising model with ferromagnetic interactions that decay as is analyzed in the non-extensive regime , where the thermodynamic limit is not defined. In order to study the asymptotic properties of the model in the limit ( being the number of spins) we propose a generalization of the Curie-Weiss model, for which the limit is well defined for all . We conjecture that mean field theory is {\it exact} in the last model for all . This conjecture is supported by Monte Carlo heat bath simulations in the case. Moreover, we confirm a recently conjectured scaling (Tsallis\cite{Tsallis}) which allows for a unification of extensive () and non-extensive () regimes.

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